"Before you go anywhere else with your disappointments, go to God. Maybe you don’t want to trouble Him with your hurts. “He’s got famines and wars; He won’t care about my little struggles,” you think. Why don’t you let Him decide that? He cared enough about a wedding to provide the wine. He cared enough about Peter’s tax payment to give him a coin. He cared enough about the woman at the well to give her answers. He cares about you! Your first step is to go to the right person. Go to God. Your second step is to assume the right posture. Bow before God. And—trust in Him! Go. Bow. Trust. Worth a try—don’t you think?" - Max Lucado

"The sovereignty of God means that nothing gets to you before it comes through His fingers first. God is in charge. The sovereignty of God means that He is ultimately calling the shots. That’s why the stuff on earth can never be allowed to have the last word in your situation.  No matter how bleak things may look… how bad things may look… or how dead things may look… they can never have the last word.  Why?  Because while a king may die, the King is fine!" - Tony Evans

"The Lord is with you even when things look like they are against you because God is looking at where He is taking you, not where you are. Trust Him." - Tony Evans

"Negative people don't enjoy life. Viewing each day with positive expectations is one of the key principles to godly happiness." - Joyce Meyer

"Ain't no blessing like a blessing you haven't had in a long time." - TDJ

"When our strength is in God, even the difficult places in life can be turned into blessings. That's why we need to constantly keep our minds and hearts focused on Him... not on our circumstances." - Joyce Meyer

"The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And, when people try to minimize your own pain, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But, it doesn’t mean that it won’t end. That it won’t get better. Because it will." - J

“OK, here’s rule number one: Remember this for the rest of your life: You do not reward bad behavior... because behaviors that get rewards tend to repeat.” - Dr. Phil McGraw

 

"Walk into any church and you’re bound to find people who look happy, secure, and at peace. But inwardly, they’re confused, frustrated, frightened, guilty, and ashamed to reveal themselves to others—secretly crying out for someone to love them as they are. Seldom does a person have the courage to expose his or her deep needs before a seemingly self-sufficient church gathering. And that’s a crying shame!" - Charles Stanley

"Come with me to the world’s most oppressive prison. The name of the prison? You’ll see it over the entrance. WANT! The prison of want. They want something bigger. Nicer. Faster. Thinner. They want just one thing. One new job. One new car. One new spouse. They want just one. And when they have “one,” they’ll be happy. But then it happens. The new car smell passes. The new job gets old. The new spouse has bad habits. Are you in prison? You are if you feel better when you have more and worse when you have less. But there’s good news. You have a visitor—with a message that can get you parole. “I have a secret to tell you,” he whispers, “the secret of satisfaction.” “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want!” What you have in God is greater than what you don’t have in life!" - Max Lucado

"Why do we find it so hard to MOVE ON? Why do we have such a difficulty accepting the inevitable, dealing with what’s right in front of us – why can’t we get over something we can do nothing to change? I guess we all just hope too much. Hope for the best, hope that he’s/she's still holding on when the truth is he’s/she's long gone, up, up, up and away. There’s a fine line between faith and naivety, sometimes we’re too in love to see that line and so BLINDLY cross it. In every relationship there comes a point when the damage is too much and no matter how good it once was, the memories can’t sustain you. You have to save yourself knowing all the while it will hurt like hell, because you can’t keep giving someone everything if you get nothing in return but pain." - J

“You need to make a core decision: Are you buying a ticket to a train wreck? That’s what you need to ask yourself, and the best predictor of future behavior is relevant past behavior. Unless something dramatic happens to change his or her value system and his or her behavior, you’re going to get the same thing in the future that you’ve gotten in the past.” - Dr. Phil McGraw