The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

Ask Jesus to show you your beauty. Ask him what he thinks of you as a woman. His words to us let us rest and unveil our beauty.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."

When we recover the humanity of Jesus, it helps us find him in the messy parts of our own humanity, of humanity at large. We discover for ourselves the vast richness and beauty of his heart. If his heart is such, in whose image we are made and are being remade, might our own hearts one day be so rich?

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

What man is a man who does not make the world better?

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.