If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength. "
Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.