The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.
Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.
It's never fun when we're in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.