“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”

“Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.”

“Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.”

“God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.”

“As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never find. Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed. The best possible way to keep from getting sucked into the superficial narcissistic mentality that money, possessions, and sensuality can satisfy and secure us is to deliberately give ourselves to something much greater...[Christ] showed us that giving, rather than getting, is the means to receiving...to find yourself, your true self, you must lose yourself in something larger.”

“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”

“Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.”