If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

We need an untamed Savior because… only a wildly redemptive Jesus can free us from the pain and bondage of past mistakes!

I'm afraid my former life could sabotage the abundant future Jesus promised those of us who put our hope in Him.

He called himself chief among sinners yet proclaimed himself made new in Christ.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

It is terrifying when God takes out the instruments for the surgery for which no human being has the strength: to take away a person's human zest for life, to slay him — in order that he can live as one who has died to the world and to the flesh.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

No matter what you've been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!