I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.