If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again
God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.
God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.
You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.
We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
You are a Christian because somebody cared. Now it's your turn.
The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.
People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.
If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.
It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.
The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Meekness is power under control.
If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him.
If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.
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