It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it. " The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.