“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”

“only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred”

“Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.”

“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.”

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

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

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