What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.

God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.

Nothing is out of reach for Jesus.

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!

Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.

We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.

It's good to dream. We can't out-give God. We can't out-love him, and we can't out-dream him.

I know I am brave because the thought of giving up scares me more than the thought of fighting

Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

The choice you make, makes you.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.