Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus Quotes

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It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

He created us for adventure, not ease.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

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

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

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

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus