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.

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.

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

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

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

If you're thinking bout me, text 143 that means I Love You

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.