Too often I’m the slumlord of my own heart.

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.

There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest essence of our pain.

The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.

God’s genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

With God, a mountain is nothing more than a road that we’ve mistaken for something that it’s not in order to excuse us from a journey that we fear.

I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

Despite how ominous it might appear; the size of the task will never be bigger than the man who has chosen to be obedient.