But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.

When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.