Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

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.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

Winners don't do different things.They do things different and accordingly.

The more I learn, the more I yearn.

Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.