Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.
Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.
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.
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.