Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

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.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.