Chance Scoggins
Part of your spiritual journey is shedding other people’s expectations about what your spiritual journey should look like. And shedding your own too, by the way. I am not you. You are not me. We started at different times and places. We will end at different times and places. Our journeys are just that...ours. I’m not sure that many if any of us should be trusted, but I sure do trust the author and finisher. Seek...and you will find. Not because you’re doing it right, but because God plans to be found...in ways and at times that are unique and specific to you. No need to compare with your neighbor. No good in judging your neighbor either. We're all in different places on our own unique path. It's not supposed to look the same.
C. S. Lewis
Vaneetha Risner
Replacing "what if" with "even if" in our mental vocabulary is one of the most liberating exchanges we can ever make. We trade our irrational fears of an uncertain future for the loving assurance of an unchanging God. We see that even if the very worst happens, God will carry us. He will still be good. And he will never leave us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Trust in Christ despite it all, for He can hush the hurricane to slumber, and lay the storm to sleep.
Danny Silk
Billy Sunday
If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
Frederick Dale Bruner
. But Jesus realizes that the most restful gift he can give the tired is a new way to carry life, a fresh way to bear responsibilities…. Realism sees that life is a succession of burdens; we cannot get away from them; thus instead of offering escape, Jesus offers equipment. Jesus means that obedience to his Sermon on the Mount [his yoke] will develop in us a balance and a “way” of carrying life that will give more rest than the way we have been living.
Stasi Eldredge
Billy Graham
We must be careful... that our anger is not a cover for lovelessness or self-righteousness. Anger and bitterness (as well as hatred, jealousy, and resentment) aren’t identical, but they are closely related. Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.
John Maxwell
Once a person embraces responsibility, they become better citizens, better spouses, better community members... they just get better! That’s what all these transformation values do — they lift us to a higher level.