“God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.”

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.

God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.

God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

Worship is when we give God His breath back.

Jesus doesn’t just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree I can channel God’s life to others.

Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.

The Father doesn’t give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.