"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

When people let youd own, God will pick you up.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.