People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

Don't let fear decide your future.