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

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.