Elizabeth George
Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.Collection: Home
God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.Collection: Thinking
A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.Collection: Powerful
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . .Collection: Past
Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.Collection: Children
No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.Collection: Heart
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.Collection: Focus
God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!Collection: Target
When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.Collection: Focus
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.Collection: Real
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.Collection: Peace
Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.Collection: Character
We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.Collection: God's Plan
One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.Collection: Damage
Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.Collection: Reflection
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.Collection: Stars
I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.Collection: Want
God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.Collection: Mother
Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!Collection: Christian
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.Collection: Stones
By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!Collection: Christian
If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!Collection: Passion
It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.Collection: Moving
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.Collection: Forgiveness
Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.Collection: Each Day
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.Collection: Attitude
Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.Collection: Attitude
There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.Collection: Easy Answers
Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.Collection: Spiritual
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.Collection: Joy
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.Collection: Godly
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.Collection: Dust
When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.Collection: Gone
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.Collection: Dream
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.Collection: Children
As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.Collection: Accepting
What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.Collection: Mother
Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.Collection: Writing
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.Collection: Inspiration
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of viewCollection: Believe
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.Collection: Prayer
When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.Collection: Well Being
For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.Collection: Mean
Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.Collection: Children