"A joyful heart is like a sunshine of God's love." - Mother Teresa

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. - Proverbs 17:22

"We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that: We must leave them there." - Hannah Whitall Smith

Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. - 1 Peter 5:7 

"To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him." -  Søren Kierkegaard

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father . . . - James 1:17

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C. S. Lewis

"I am the light of the world. " - Jesus, as quoted in John 8:12

"To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God." - A.W. Tozer

In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. - Psalm 5:3

"Character is much more easily kept than recovered."

He that walks with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. - Proverbs 13:20

"It is better to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another." - Dag Hammarskjöld

 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?  Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.” - Jesus, as quoted in Matthew 7:3-5 NLT
 

"Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. - Galatians 6:7-8

"Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won." - Maltbie D. Babcock

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. - Jesus. as quoted in Matthew 7:12

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." - Abigail Van Buren



Be kind and compassionate to one another. - Ephesians 4:32

"I have managed to live so long by carrying no hatreds." - Winston Churchill

“A new command I give you: Love one another." - Jesus, as quoted in John 13:34

"The natural man must know in order to believe; the spiritual man must believe in order to know." - A.W. Tozer, Man, the Dwelling Place of God

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. - 1 Corinthians 2:14

"In the realm of spirit faith precedes understanding; it does not follow it." - A.W. Tozer, Man, the Dwelling Place of God

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. - Hebrews 11:1