This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating
I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.
I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.
Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.