This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
What is the future you’re creating right now?
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
Jesus beckons his followers to a path that’s far from the easy road. It’s a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities – the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.
You can plant a church and grow a church. That’s not that hard to do, but it’s harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It’s not getting easier; if anything, it’s always right on the edge of my skin.
It’s not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It’s what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.
To create is to reflect the image of God. To create is an act of worship.
Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.
True creativity does not come easily; creativity is born of risk and refined from failure.
We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.
Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.
What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?
There is no proof of creativity without action.