You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

In your relationship with God there are also times when you want to say things and you're trying to find the words to express them. In a human relationship sometimes you struggle for words and you've got to do it, but in a relationship with God he can actually give you a language which enables you to communicate. In a relationship with God you feel things and you want to express them and you're not limited by human language. You can express what you really feel in your heart, through a language that he gives you, and that helps you to communicate with God.

Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their bodies. One person described a feeling of 'glowing all over'. Another said she experienced 'liquid heat'. Still another described 'burning in my arms when I was not hot'.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.