The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.