Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

Be my God, so I can just be me.

I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.