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“When I took that step, and stood up to speak that day, God did not remove my anxiety. But He set in motion my journey of starting to see anxiety as a tool for growth in my life, and as a catalyst to spur me beyond the limitations and the fears that I hid behind. You”
― Rhett Smith, The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?

“Our job is to live in an intimate relationship with God the Father and let our masculinity flow out of it. There, in that place, we will discover what it means to be a man.”
― Rhett Smith, What it Means to be a Man: God's Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes

“Occupation and not empty space is what most of us are looking for. When we are not occupied we become restless. We even become fearful when we do not know what we will do the next hour, the next day or the next year. … We are so afraid of open spaces and empty places that we occupy them with our minds even before we are there. Our worries and concerns are expressions of our inability to leave unresolved questions unresolved and open-ended situations open-ended.5”
― Rhett Smith, The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?

“we have a choice to anchor our masculinity in either the defining values of the culture or the defining values of God. At”
― Rhett Smith, What it Means to be a Man: God's Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes

“the call to manhood is the same regardless of race, color, language, culture, upbringing, or the life we currently lead. Our”
― Rhett Smith, What it Means to be a Man: God's Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes