Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.
When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.
Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.
It's never fun when we're in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
MarcFaytheJace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you. . . . " "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too. " I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me. . . " He was on me before I could even catch my breath.
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music. " Then there were all these things that I learned to get myself over certain humps, but I think it just comes down to: do I have something to say or not? If I'm feeling something I should try to get that out, and maybe it's not words, but trying to turn it into something.