...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.

We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.

I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my barren soul as beautiful as His perfect garden.

Jesus came emotional and raw, scandalously gracious. I want to be like Him.

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. I ache for a journey of Jesus-like forgiveness. The kind demanding time and suffering in the process.

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.