Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.