It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.

She was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn't what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

God chose David. On the surface, the choice made no sense. But God doesn't work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

God reminded Samuel that the human mind has an overwhelming tendency to make assumptions based on appearances. God's choices don't always make sense to us, but they are never haphazard or random.

To a human race insatiably attracted to attractiveness, God offered a Savior with "no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). We keep looking for a beautiful way to a beautiful life, when as God would have it, the only way to find it is through an unbeautiful cross.

Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.

When I see people now, I try not to see them "flesh to flesh," because then I see them "mess to mess." Instead, I try to look at them in their spirit. I try to see them "spirit to spirit.

It is a poor soul who confuses dirt with filth or soil with soiled.

Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves.

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

The LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 13:3