We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.

When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.