Jon-Scot Gilstrap

“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Do this for someone. Ask someone to tell you his—or her—story. Resist the urge to interrupt or correct. Turn off the television. Log off from the internet. Close your laptop; silence your cell phone. Give the rarest of gifts: your full attention.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“My salvation has nothing to do with my work and everything to do with the finished work of Christ on the cross.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World