Lying Damages Others. Lying Subtly Permits Us

The World Is Filled With Too Many Of Us Who Are Inclined To Indicate Our Love With An Announcement Or Declaration. True Love Is A Process. True Love Requires Personal Action. Love Must Be Continuing To Be Real. Love Takes Time.

One Of The Great Tragedies Of Life, It Seems To Me, Is When A Person Classifies Himself As Someone Who Has No Talents Or Gifts. When, In Disgust Or Discouragement, We Allow Ourselves To Reach Depressive Levels Of Despair Because Of Our Demeaning Self-appraisal, It Is A Sad Day For Us And A Sad Day In The Eyes Of God. For Us To Conclude That We Have No Gifts When We Judge Ourselves By Stature, Intelligence, Grade-point Average, Wealth, Power, Position, Or External Appearance Is Not Only Unfair But Unreasonable.

We ... Tend To Evaluate Others On The Basis Of Physical, Outward Appearance: Their "good Looks," Their Social Status, Their Family Pedigrees, Their Degrees, Or Their Economic Situations. The Lord, However, Has A Different Standard By Which He Measures A Person. When It Came Time To Choose A King To Replace King Saul, The Lord Gave This Criteria To His Prophet Samuel: "look Not On His Countenance, Or On The Height Of His Stature; ... For The Lord Seeth Not As Man Seeth; For Man Looketh On The Outward Appearance, But The Lord Looketh On The Heart."

Satan Is Ever Present, Trying To Destroy Our Glory And Remove Our Crown. One Of His Most Powerful Tools Is Discouragement. Don't Let Your Discouragement Make Satan Rejoice.

True Happiness Is Not Made In Getting Something. True Happiness Is Becoming Something. This Can Be Done By Being Committed To Lofty Goals. We Cannot Become Something Without Commitment.