There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.

The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.