If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.