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"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." -H.J. Brown Jr. “Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who & what we are.” -Charles Bukowski "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's...

"Union with Christ in His resurrection was not an after-thought on the part of God. It was not some sort of plan b because the devil had spoiled Plan A." -John Gavazzoni-

"There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes." -Frank Lauback

It’s quiet. It’s early. My coffee is hot. The sky is still black. The world is still asleep. The day is coming. In a few moments the day will arrive. It will roar down the track with the rising of the sun. The stillness of the dawn will be exchanged for the noise of the day. The calm of...

"When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is the worst passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons...

"It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered, in the midst of it, a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but...

"If you are as weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are." ~Frank Laubach

"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire." -Carl Jung

"You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it." -Adrian Rogers "Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship." -Elisabeth Elliot

Good news kindness The kindness flags are flying in full force these days! Countless acts of kindness—small and grand—are coming from every corner of the country. We’ve seen distilleries making hand sanitizer from their supplies of alcohol, grocery stores offering special shopping hours for...

"I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity." -R. C. Sproul “If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That...

Random Acts Of Kindness Johann Hari in his books and You tube Videos talks a lot about how addiction, depression and anxiety are often the result of people not being able to connect with each other and feelings of isolation. An act of kindness no matter how small creates a moment of...

A teen in Wisconsin knew just what to do when she won a free car, immediately handing over the keys to a friend and Chick-fil-A colleague who had been biking almost 7 miles to the restaurant each way. Winters are chilly in the Green Bay State, and Hokule’a Taniguchi’s bicycle was her only mode...

If we can make an effort to shift the focus away from ourselves and our circumstances, we often find more joy. Why does this happen? It happens because when we focus on others, our problems, needs and wants stop taking center stage in our life. We realize that we are not alone in our trials. We...

"The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says amen and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas." -Frank Lauback

"I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting." -Frank Laubach

"Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him." -Arthur W. Pink “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting...

“What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead, but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. ” - N.T. Wright