Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

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

There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.