Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

It is often said that to have a fulfilling life, three essentials are required: a clear sense of personal identity, a deep sense of faith and meaning, and a strong sense of purpose and mission. ~ Os Guinness

Pain makes you stronger, Fear makes you Braver, and Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do. ~ Joyce Meyer

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. ~ Henry Ford

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ~ Robert Frost

Blessed are the people who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. ~ Andy Rooney

It is strange that in our praying we seldom ask for a change in character, but always a change in circumstances.

Anger is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~ Malachy McCourt

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be! ~ Maya Angelou

You can suffer the pain of change, or suffer remaining the way you are. ~ Joyce Meyer

Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid! ~ Joyce Meyer

Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes the reason is that you’re not very wise and you make bad decisions.

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one. Which one seems unnatural now?

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. ~ Rita Mae Brown

An old man said, “Erasers” are made for those who make MISTAKES. A youth replied, “Erasers” are made for those who are willing to CORRECT their mistakes. ATTITUDE MATTERS!!!

In the U.S. Armed Forces more than 14,000 men and women have been fired over the last 17 years because of their sexual orientation. ~ Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Dec 2010.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it. ~ Joyce Meyer

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

If male homosexuals are called ‘Gay’, then female homosexuals should be called ‘Ecstatic’. ~ Shelly Roberts

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.

Gay Pride was not born out of a need to celebrate being gay, but instead our right to exist without prosecution. So maybe instead of wondering why there isn’t a Straight Pride month or movement, straight people should be thankful they don’t need one.

Being gay is not a Western invention; it is a human reality. ~ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision. ~ Lynn Lavner