Who we were created to become already exists in the mind of God. It’s placed in our physical DNA and in the longings of our soul. Our lives are supposed to be a manifestation of the imagination of God, and whatever else we leave behind – the life we choose to live and the person we choose to become – is the ultimate expression of the artisan soul.
Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.
If we choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.
Worship is not something we are called to so that God can reinforce his status. It is his way of calling us near.
This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ever been more betrayed? God would not know suffering if He did not know love. But because He is Love, He chose to suffer on our behalf. Without love there is no glory in suffering.
The artisan soul is not about rebellion but about resonance.
In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.
The soul is both fragile and resilient... The artisan soul must be both tender and tough.
Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is “Christian.” Earlier.
The warrior knows that their imagination is not a place to escape but to create.
If you find yourself living in a world where there is only cynicism, negativity, and distrust, you need to realize that it’s a world of your own making. There is a more beautiful world out there to be known, but you have to be able to see it. You have to want it. You must be willing to risk, to step outside of what you know, to live in a more extraordinary unknown.
The warrior does not need a crowd; they need a tribe.
God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.
Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.
What if the creative act is not an act against God but a reflection of His image within us?
Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.
The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.
I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.
You also can’t move forward into your future when you are paralyzed by fear.
If the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God, then an appropriate measure of God’s will is the test, ‘is it safe?’... This view runs counter to what we find in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God’s will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world.