God loves you just the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you the way you are.

There is a relationship between our ability to live the life Jesus has for us and our willingness to push through our faux walls and acknowledge that our reasons, our because’s, are actually excuses.

If you talk yourself out of it you can talk yourself into it.

Letting go of what we are living with.

Life is very much a contradiction. It is not always black and white. One of the emotionally healthiest things we can do is be okay living in that tension. Life can be both beautiful, and afflicted.

Settling is settling and stretching is unsettling

Pushing past the fear of criticism starts by embracing it.

We need fighters, but not everything is worthy of a fight.

The ‘pure in heart’ are those who have been delivered from sin’s power by God’s grace and strive to be like him. We must repent and ask God to forgive our sin; the pure in heart will see God.

When we show mercy, we break the cycle of unforgiveness.