Jim Quotes
Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.
Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.
Prayer releases your problems to God.
When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.
I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.
Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.
The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace
The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You go in when it is cold, and come out when it is too hot.
The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot.
I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it.
How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?
Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.
If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.
Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.
The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.
Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.
Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.
I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.
Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction.
Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.
listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine
There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory
I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.