Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.