God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.

The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhat made useful to him. ...Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults...

Our strength grows out of our weakness

There is a crack in every thing God has made.

I'm not always happy, any more than I'm always holy. But by God's grace, I'm happier in Christ now than I've ever been.