You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have.

It’s just another stop on the curvy roadthe final encounterfor the man who has liveddeath is the answer.

Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you!

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.

Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.