There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Life minus love equals zero.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.