If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

We have to have positive male role models.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.