When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

GIVE IF YOU CAN. TAKE IF YOU HAVE TO

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I don't want to hurt people.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.