Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.