When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God's grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need.

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were "wheelchair" saints. May God give you grace to "triumph in affliction".

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity.

God's grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.

However, the Bible teaches that God does not always deliver His saints from adversity. A careful reading of Hebrews 11 shows that "others'" were just as faithful as Abraham, Moses, Daniel, or David; they, too, walked with God—but they perished. God has not promised to deliver us from trouble, but He has promised to go with us through the trouble.

One reason God allows times of difficulty and suffering to come into our lives is so that we will not take Him for granted but will remember in a deeper way His faithfulness to us and our dependence on Him.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

You will never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Humility says, "Lord, I am empty without Your fullness; I am broken without Your wholeness; I am helpless without Your strength; I am clueless without your wisdom. Apart from You I am nothing. I need You!

During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother. This was not unnatural. The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the labour of the Negro.