“Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.”

God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.

Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.

Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Just because we feel offended doesn’t mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.

God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It’s the decision to stay the same.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God’s power.

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

Stop rushing and fill yourself with anxiety.

When the anxiety of loneliness is at its peak, it is important to keep the fire burning, and remember that we are all in this together.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important.⁣

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.