At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.

Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.