To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.

I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.