Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry.