To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

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

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

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