God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American.

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.