It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

I don't need to work.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.