“The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.”

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”

This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”

The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…

The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

What we’re calling ‘presencing’ is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me “Izzy” and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I’d been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone’s calling, to lead a life that helps.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.