encouragement

You are a great light, brighten the world.

I live in the realm of love and light.

People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn__ stay still. Why stay still now?

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

We learn from trials and errors.

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.

90% of learning comes through encouragement.

Tomorrow has not invited you yet, so LIVE for today! Tomorrow is near, yet so far away. Choose this day to smile, laugh, love unconditionally, and be happy within.

You see, God didn't create us to merely survive. He created us to thrive! We were made for abundant life.

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.

People__ love for us may change, depending on what we do or don__ do to please them. But God__ does not__t__ everlasting.

When we forgive someone, it doesn__ justify what they__e done. It releases them into God__ hands so He can deal with them.