I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

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.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.