Obstacles that seems insurmountable aren’t. Impediments that we believe disqualify us don’t.
In the end, love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does.
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, ‘Let’s go do that together.
I think God pays attention to our hearts and enjoys when people want to get close to Him. He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us.
We were all meant to save many lives. God is always trying to save lives, and it seems like He usually uses the least likely people to do it.
Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.
No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure’s off; just go love everybody without agenda.
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche.
God never said He’d eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He’d bring meaning to it.
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.
That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.