Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can’t keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

REFLECTIONS OF TRUTHWhere you find TruthIs where you find your reflectionAnd where you find your reflectionIs where you find loveAnd where you find loveIs where you find lightAnd where you find lightIs where you find...

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.

A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only...

Embrace life in totality.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father’s rules only because he fears the...

I want to be owned by you.

The most necessary steps in one’s journey in life are also often the most terrifying.

Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that...

So Captain Faith conducted the prince and his mighty captains and men of war into the castle in the very heart of Mansoul. Prince Emmanuel had come home.

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or...

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their...

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs...

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other”. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

Faith is a three dimensional action verb”.~R. Alan Woods [19998]

We are never alone God will always be with us.

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn...

Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!

‎Those who aren’t following Jesus aren’t his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don’t follow aren’t followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love...

Fear is ugly. It is monstrous. But fear stands no chance in the face of faith.

Go where your best prayers take you.

Don’t let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don’t let them define your God and don’t let them tell you how to express your faith.

Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Pactum serva” – “Keep the faith

Religion is inevitably something that demands faith, or belief from us. Given the variety of forms of religion, it is natural that definitions of faith are also various. One interpretation, based on our discussion thus...

Just jump, make that call, take the next step and say NO, I’m done, that’s it! As long as you entertain fearful thoughts, you’ll continue to feel the pain. So, just take some kind of...

If something hurts you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts.

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

Revenge is but a temporary gratification, but that which stays within you longer is the guilt and sin after revenging making you not much of a better person.

Apart from new dreams, opportunities, love and blessings in new places, it’s God’s most earnest desire to give you a new life.

For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, “Do you believe in God?” His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while....

Predestination therefore, as it regards the thing itself, is the Decree of the good pleasure of God in Christ, by which He resolved within Himself from all eternity, to justify, adopt, and endow with everlasting...

Please don’t take my wings…

learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

I’m with you. Do not be afraid.” Sadly, many times we withdrew long before receiving the blessing He has for us, what He wants to show us; or we get disappointed because we don’t recognize...

Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning

There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods...

…people who’ve been hit with the gospel respond naturally with radically changed lives and hearts. The church and the ministries of the church are gospel centered when they flow from hearts that are afire with...

Remember, morality is God’s standard, not humankind’s standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter...