Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

I might find myself standing in front of a wall, but without a wall there wouldn’t be a door.

Too often we make it more about what stands before us, and we miss all that stands within us.

Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.

How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says “what mountains?

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.