We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.

Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That's not love. That's manipulation. And it's all so unrealistic.

Pray for people who are in a better situation than you are, who are more gifted than you are, or who currently have wonderful circumstances coming their way. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Pray for someone else's promotion, someone else's pregnancy, someone else's healing. That crucifies envy.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.