Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Oh tell me again how you are saving me.Oh tell me again how you are leaving me.Take care, sweetheart. Play fair, sweetheart.Living different lives in empty beds.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.