Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.