Quotes from Martha Williamson

How can you judge something fairly when you don't know what the rules are? You can't play God, because you aren't God.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

Faith that no matter what happens, you won't lose God's love.

God loves you. And if God is on your side, what is there to fear? Nothing. Now or ever.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

Look, He's not promising that it's going to be easy, but He says it's going to be worth it.

Hate's caused a lot of problems in this world, and it's never solved one yet.

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them, if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something, as if they know precisely the moment when everything went wrong.

People like to think that bad things only happen to faceless strangers in newspapers, until it happens to them. That's why our faith must be strong now, before we need it.

Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

You don't need proof. You need faith.

We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Trying to make sense of evil will only give you a headache. Evil is for evil's sake, period. Its only goal is chaos and destruction.

You fail because you are human.

Things happen in God's time, not yours.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep an angel from her appointed assignment.

Judging a man is easy. Compassion is hard.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.