If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

I must first possess an understanding of who the person is before I can create a vision of what they can become, for the truly discerning person knows that the former has already laid the groundwork for the latter.

I only look like everyone else because I’ve never really taken the time to understand either of us.

Anyone can pursue great things. But, it is the wise person who, having exhausted themselves in the pursuit of great things, is able to surrender such a pursuit having finally recognized that small things are the great things.

If you feel that you need to argue, do so once you’ve listened, because if you do you’re likely to realize that there’s really nothing to argue about. And that’s the best argument for not having one.

Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.

If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live the rest of our lives walking barefoot.

At times, life vast beyond our understanding careens and then collides headlong with the scrawny limitations of our understanding in an all-out brawl that will dictate whether we stay stunted or whether we rise liberated.