BJ

“We made our own decisions and followed our own course. To demonstrate God’s providential care, He blessed our plans and let them work. But when we grow up and become mature Christians, we sometimes have to do things we don’t particularly want to do in the natural realm, in obedience to God’s directions. God no longer blesses and prospers our childish plans and schemes.”
― Joyce Meyer, Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God

“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth “thrown in”: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Using the gifts and personality God has given you, through your fears and discouragement, be bold in how you tell the truth to others.”
― Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts--Not Just Arguments

“It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity