Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.
Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.
Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.
The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives Himself to us. God's insistence that we worship Him is not really a demand at all but an offer-an offer to share Himself with us. When God asks us to worship Him, He is asking us to fulfill the deepest longing in Himself, which is His passionate desire to give Himself to us. It is what Martin Luther called "the joyful exchange. "
Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.
Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.
One is often guilty by being too just.
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.