Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.

God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.

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.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

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.

A prophet weeps while others are laughing.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings