If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.
Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.
There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.
Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.
Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is an act of humility. Fasting gives opportunity for deeper humility as we recognize our sins, repent, receive God's forgiveness, and experience His cleansing of our soul and spirit. Fasting also demonstrates our love for God and our full confidence in His faithfulness.
GRACE: All you can do is take it.
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.