A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.