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.

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

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.

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

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.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Stress is a dragon.Believe in it and you’re toast.Slay your stress.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

Control yourself, not your dreams.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.