If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.