Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

Your group has a right and responsibility to preside over your behavior and you have a responsibility to make that behavior in a manner that does not endanger the group.

All that I am my mother made me.

I remember making up songs in my head.

I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.