“We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.”

“We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.”

“It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.”

“Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)”

“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.”

“We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.”

“Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.”

“The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.”

“When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.”

“I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.”

“We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.”