Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.

After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.

Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.

You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.