Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

You can have control. You can have growth. But, you can't have both.

If you're not dead...you're not done.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.