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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

You know what it is about someone that makes them a friend? A friend doesn't just say things; a friend does.

Following Jesus is about having your paradigms shift as you navigate a wide range of emotions while living the big life Jesus invites us into.

The words people say to us not only have shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

God's big plan: go love everybody, always!

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

It's in my nature, maybe all of our natures, to try to engineer things. So I skew the answers to get what I think I want.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away.

...love is never stationary.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

[ ... ] I believed words still had power when they are said by the right people.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

I guess that guy who ends up with the girl sometimes is just as insecure as the guy who gets dumped by her.

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Extravagant love is never wasted.

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

[ ... ] the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence.

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical - God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical.

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.

Go be the next humblest version of yourself.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

God doesn't want failure to shut us down.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

God can use anyone, for sure. If you can shred on a Fender or won "Best Personality," you're not disqualified-it just doesn't make you more qualified.

Jesus didn't say He would ice over the grit of faults and failures either; He said He would use us in spite of the grit and faults and failures.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

[ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they've come.

I want to live in a new normal where I can reach out to people who are different from me and just be friends.

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

Wouldn't it be a horrible thing if we studied the ones we loved instead of bonding in deeper ways to doing things with them?

[ ... ] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated.

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

[ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken.

No, no ... that's not why I came," Ryan stammered. "What I wanted to say

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

I used to think religion tasted horrible,
but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff.

Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.

You weren't just an incredible idea that God never got around to making. The next step happened for the world when God dropped you on the planet.

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures;
grace doesn't even write them down.

God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big

Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.

I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.

The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

I used to think I had to act a certain way to follow God, but now I know God doesn't want us to be typical.

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

We were all meant to save many lives. God is always trying to save lives, and it seems like He usually uses the least likely people to do it.

What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we're here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough?

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.