The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.