"that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable," ~ 1 THESSALONIANS 4:4 (NIV)

We have to take control of our bodies, and make them our servants instead of our masters. - Jerry Bridges

"You have put gladness in my heart, More than in the season that their grain and wine increased." ~ PSALM 4:7 (NKJV)

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." - Washington Irving

"We love Him because He first loved us." ~ 1 JOHN 4:19 (NKJV)

Our first and last love is...GOD's love. - Florabelle L. Barrican

"For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls." ~ 1 PETER 2:25 (NKJV)

“In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender” – Abraham Joshua Heschel

He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.” ~ MARK 9:29 (NIV)

Don't get entangled in your own mess. Pray about it. Trust GOD to work it out and go ahead and enjoy your life! - Joyce Meyer

"Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity." ~ 1 TIMOTHY 4:12 9NKJV)

“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” —Thomas Morell

"Do you not know that you are the temple of GOD and that the Spirit of GOD dwells in you?" ~ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16 (NKJV)

The LORD draws every soul alike; a pure spring of water will fill every vessel alike, whatever the size or shape of the vessel. - G.V. Wigram

"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak." ~ ISAIAH 40:29 (NIV)

We all are bruised reeds, whether our bruises are visible or not. The compassionate life is the life in which we believe that strength is hidden in weakness and that true community is a fellowship of the weak. - Henri J. M. Nouwen

"Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels." ~ HEBREWS 13:1-2 (NKJV)

Be gracious to others; do kind deeds beyond the call of duty; remember that every person is fighting a battle. - Thomas Kepler

"How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!" ~ PSALM 84:1 (NIV)

We can never escape GOD’s lovely essence. - Sonnett Branche

"not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit," ~ TITUS 3:5 (NKJV)

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. - John Owen

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to GOD, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." ~ 2 TIMOTHY 2:15 (NKJV)

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of GOD. - James Stalker

"The grace of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen." ~ 2 CORINTHIANS 13:14 (NKJV)

Grace expresses two complementary thoughts: GOD's unmerited favor to us through CHRIST, and GOD's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit. - Jerry Bridges

"Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of GOD." ~ ROMANS 8:27 (NKJV)

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the LORD, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the LORD. - Thomas Brooks

"For it is the GOD who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of JESUS CHRIST." ~ 2 CORINTHIANS 4:6 (NKJV)

“We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of GOD will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with JESUS.” - Oswald Chambers

"O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!" ~ PSALM 84:12 (NKJV)

When you are willing to be used by GOD and step out in faith, trust GOD and go, He can do amazing things. - Matt Slick

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to GOD;" ~ PHILIPPIANS 4:6 (NKJV)

GOD requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing. - Arthur W. Pink