In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.

When it comes to doing great things, it’s less a matter of vision and more a matter of bravery.

The time to act is not when everyone else does. The time to act is when everyone else has chosen not to.

Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to actually act on it.

Obedience that does not have faith in that to which it is being obedient will mouth the words, but it will never walk the road.

If I am risk adverse, my growth will be reversed.

One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him into submission. And while the fears are the same, the kind of men that they produce are not.

Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.