Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.