Erwin Jadraque

I don’t think we have any business telling people what to change in their lives unless we’re willing to change a couple of things in ours.

Loving people the way Jesus did means being constantly misunderstood. People who are becoming love don’t care. They will do whatever it takes to reach whoever is hurting.”

We all encounter difficulties. It’s what we do next that defines us.

People don’t grow where they’re planted; they grow where they’re loved.

When we’re busy getting our validation from other people around us, we stop looking for it from God.

A lot of us pretend we’re at a different place in our faith than we really are. We pretend to be someone we’re not, hoping we’ll find more love or respect or popularity or get more attention. There usually isn’t a bad motive underlying this; we do it because we’re insecure or we’re looking for approval or we’re reaching for a way to connect with the people around us. Yet when what our faith looks like becomes more important than what it is, it’s evedince we’re forgotten who we really are.