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

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

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.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

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.

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.