Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine. "
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before. . . Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.