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.

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.

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)

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.

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

And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years, " said the twins."I've got years and years and years, " said Sophie.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

people change and promises are broken

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.