"Just think, you're here not by chance but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - you are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation." --anonymous

"God does not send us into the dangerous and exacting life of faith because we are qualified. He chooses us in order to qualify us for what He wants us to be and do." --Eugene Peterson

"Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us and should ever be considered in any sense our own." --A.W. Tozer

"But thanks be to God, who made us captives and leads us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now wherever we go, He uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Good News like a sweet perfume." --2 Corinthians 2:14

"May God who gives patience and encouragement help you live in complete harmony with each other-each with the attitude of Christ Jesus toward the other. And then all of us can praise the Lord together with one voice giving glory to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." --Romans 15:5-6