We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.

I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.

I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my barren soul as beautiful as His perfect garden.

Jesus came emotional and raw, scandalously gracious. I want to be like Him.

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. I ache for a journey of Jesus-like forgiveness. The kind demanding time and suffering in the process.

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.