"You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy."

"Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know."

"Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird."

"Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass."

"While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing."

"When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you."

"You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain."

"When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you."

"How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving."

"There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be."

"You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got today provided for. And probably tomorrow too. Maybe even into next winter, with all the food socked away in that extra freezer in the garage."

"We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ."

"God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it."

"When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness."

"Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift."

"What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?"

"If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders."

"Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe."

"Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable, it's also unbiblical."

"Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess."

"He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed."

"Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be."

"When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you."

"I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire."

"I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action."

"No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me."

"We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity."

"We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different."

"If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently."

"But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters."

"More important, it's because God is our only true source of life."

"Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world."

"Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal."

"Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart."

"There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love."

"The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis."

"Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing."

"If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God."

"Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment."

"Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts."

"When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?"

"Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action."

"Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself."

"He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be."

"You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later."

"David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship."

"I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes."

"When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle."

"If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes."

"It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day."