If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.