"Death is the beginning of the bigger side of the story."

"Some of us are always waiting for life to begin. And I often wonder if life actually began a look time ago and we were too afraid to admit that it began."

"Sometimes the path is hidden by the foliage that surrounds us, the trees that have fallen all around us, and the winds that whip the wilderness wild. And while the foliage and the trees and the winds might hide that precious path for a moment, we must remember that God birthed each of us with a destination so utterly amazing that no wilderness possesses the foliage, or the trees, or the winds to ever destroy the path to that destination."

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right."

"Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence."

"When I surrender to God all of the things in my life that I have surrendered to, I have surrendered to ever having to surrender again."

"We would sit on the old glider swing, my Grandmother and I. And as people passed her broad front porch, she would point and say, “The best life you can live is when you touch at least one life a day for Jesus.” And today, I am writing this to touch you."

"Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us."

"It was the entirely unexpected and sorely welcomed song of a single robin in the waking hours of a new morning that reminded me that this day will not be what I make it. Rather, it will be what I permit God to bring into it. And so my prayer is that my days will always be filled with robins."

"The desire of my heart is to fill my heart with everything that is of God so that there is no space for anything that is of greed. For once I have been filled in just such a manner, the desire of my heart has finally become the reality of my existence."