If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.