To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, " she said.

Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger.

The CM stands for Cole Miner.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.