With God, we will never be backed into a corner because He is bigger than any room.

To be broken means that the best of my resources lay shattered and strewn about. And it is then and only then that I am at my peak, for it is at these times that there is less of me to get in the way of all of God.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

Sometimes we reach the point where we’ve had enough of life. At that point, maybe the real truth is that we’ve had enough of our attitude.

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.