Success isn’t what you’ve done compared to others. Success is what you’ve done compared to what you were made to do.

Better to have a small role in God’s story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

If people throw stones at you, pick ’em up and build something.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don’t quit.

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

Don’t waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Live like someone died for you.

I think everybody has a purpose. Everybody is made to be a picture of how good and glorious God is, and I think sometimes we’ll get it confused and think because we mess up, we make mistakes or we have some blemishes in our record, that our purpose is somehow messed up. But actually that only serves to further paint a picture of how good God is when he uses people who are messed up just like me.

Peace doesn’t mean you won’t have problems. It’s means problems won’t have you.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

God is never late, we’re just impatient.

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you’re rolling with.

Never assume people’s motives. It’s the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

I’m always going to be a student. I’m always learning. I’m always trying to grow. I’m always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I’ve arrived.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can’t?

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

Today’s circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don’t let a negative outlook kill your joy today.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

You can’t celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.

You’ve got to admit you’re broken before you can be made whole.

Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.

I’ve made so many crazy mistakes and done so many terrible things, I don’t know. I’d just say I’m grateful for every mistake and every disappoint that I’ve had to experience – that I’m still loved and still cared for, that God’s still here for me.

Prayer isn’t where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let’s pray He burden us with HIS.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won’t overcome them.

You don’t need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God’s image.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else’s.

Christians aren’t people who never sin or always do the right thing. We’re people who live in continual repentance.

I don’t need DRUGS, I got the Most HIGH.

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, “Yeah, it happened.”

When you’re worrying you’re not praying. Stop worrying start praying.

Character isn’t who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

God says, “there’s nothing you can do to be accepted, trust me and and let me change you.” And at the end of the day, acceptance isn’t about what I do, or what I don’t do. Acceptance is about me trusting God to take me exactly as I am and take me to something different. And I think that’s what we should have for people.

I would say you’ve got to find your identity in God – in God alone – because everything else is a false sense of identity. He’s the one who made you, he’s your designer and your work and your value is found in him and not in anything or anyone else.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

Run after God. Be who you’re created to be, and you’ll run into the people who are doing the same thing, and those are the people that you’ll want to be with.

When you’re reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don’t waste it.

If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.

If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn’t mean you aren’t a slave.

Ain’t a soul on the planet that’s better than another.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he’s dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he’s dressed as an angel.

Don’t use time and words carelessly – neither can be retrieved.

But I’m here to serve people. I’m not here to wave my finger in people’s faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That’s not my place. I’m in no position to condemn anybody.

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent
and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is
Divine

I think success is being exactly who God called us to be and fighting to your death to live that out.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

Man what’s the point of living if I’m living for myself
Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

Don’t follow your feeling. Just follow the word.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.