When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

You can’t rest on yesterday’s growth. You must be dedicated to growing today… and every day.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn’t get squeamish about it.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it....

Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own...

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can’t worship without giving thanks....

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

I’ve never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred – Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned...

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, ‘Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

Salem has become this… Mecca for Wiccans, but no witches died here. Aside from Tituba, no one practiced anything like witchcraft near here in colonial times. It was a bunch of bored Puritans who thought...

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one...

If Hindus can show respect for Prophet Mohammad and the Vatican, Muslims and Christians should be as respectful to Ram.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Skills do not qualify or disqualify any of us from our purpose.

They were literally inches from being buried alive in this place, millions of miles from home or any sort of civilization, where they would never be found or mourned… and Caine continued to smile.Sweet heavens,...

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity...

Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick, for it is trying to run a heavenly institution after an...

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

Subject: SundownDate: June 14 2011 09:35To: Christian GreyDear Completely & Utterly SmittenI love waking up with you, too. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables...

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest....

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength

The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.

The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks...

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

It doesn’t matter if you have a lot or a little money. It’s what you do with it that determines its power.

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for….We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended...

You were kidnapped not?””I was kidnapped.””You were forced not into marriage?””I was forced into marriage.””You want not an annulment?””I want not an annulment.

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

It’s one thing to have a goal, but it’s quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and...

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

When in darkness….strike a match