Occupation: Author Birth: August 12, 1971
What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do..
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway..
If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the ra….
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?.
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?.
All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried..
Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our charact….
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time..
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it..
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are..
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes a….
Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them..
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningles….
When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better..
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of ….
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy..
What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re gi….
To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God ….
There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his compl….
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen..
The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think ….