I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

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

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.