“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.”

“The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part...”

“The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.”

“The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.”

“Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it”

“We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.”

“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.”