Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.