Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

My mission in life is not only to enjoy life, but to help others to feel the joy of life.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Before you judge people, judge yourself.