None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!

Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.