God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.