You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.
The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.
Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.
When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.
Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.
You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.
I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.
If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.