Quotes

God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk….and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we’re under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it’s exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question than we do from learning the answer itself.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you…out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn’t have gone to intentionally.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They’re all refining moments. You’re constantly refining yourself and refining your life.