Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.

If you’re not willing to give your life away, never bring a child into your life.

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.

Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.

Love is the only emotion strong enough to sweep us off our feet, but remain unmoved when we are knocked to our knees. And if I am willing to embrace the former but flee from the latter, I’ve confused love with infatuation.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

To lead is not to call your family up to where you’re at. Rather, it’s to abandon where you’re at and call yourself down to where they are.

It is utterly impossible to throw yourself away in the process of giving yourself away.

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.