We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Augustine explains: The flesh needs many things even for this life, and this, too, it seeks from God, because not only spiritual things but also earthly things are to be sought from no one but God.

But iniquity on earth is to prefer one's own righteousness to the righteousness of God; indeed, they want the very unrighteousness which they work to be righteousness.

Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

Real joy comes when we get the right desire met - the desire for God himself, for a life led by the Spirit, fulfilling not our material desires but our deepest need, which is to be in a close relationship with our Creator. That is the source of true blessing. The only source.

true blessings come not from stuff or from satisfying the self; they come from submitting one's self to God.