Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.