God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because...

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others...

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in...

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will...

Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how.

Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men’s wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend’s life away for just a few coins....

You don’t walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the...

She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was “the stranger”. And of course, that was the difference that made everyone’s emotions stranger.

A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don’t hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t have traveled as far in your life to...

Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval...

If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.

Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand,...

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We understand drowning. We understand being devalued. We understand being stranded alone...

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.

saved” because we choose not to save ourselves.

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.

What are words without the melody?

Dignity/ˈdignitē/ noun 1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache. 2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you...

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Love is stronger than fear.

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their...

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing....

Doing evil to another person doesn’t prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.