“Accept the fact that you’re never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.”

God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.

It’s horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.

God doesn’t call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

It’s not that we should declare the praises of God. It’s that we may.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

It is not God’s will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

Even if we don’t see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship.

Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.

God isn’t waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

And more so now, since having a family – I don’t seek out any other acceptance.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.