“Common sense told me that I didn’t want to lie to my family constantly, steal all the time, and drug myself into… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“A heavy weight of guilt drove me in my success. I felt like I needed to make up for all the money,… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Then I realized God chose me, baggage and all. God chose a drug addict, a kid who had chosen to sleep on… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I felt so lost in my addiction, I believed that no one was capable of understanding or helping me. I thought I was uniquely broken, so messed up that no other human could possibly get me. Turns out most addicts feel that way. I knew he drank occasionally, but I had no clue how much he drank, how much it… — Michael J Heil Copy Share
“That’s when it finally hit home—God is not a pile of bricks or a collection of outdated rules—He is a living, breathing, Being. No church, no building, no collection of people would ever be Him. He was God. He was love. He is the greatest being in the universe. Nothing—save Jesus’ death on the cross—could ever fully represent Him or… — Michael J Heil Copy Share
“I didn’t realize that there would always be something influencing my decisions and weighing in on my life. At this moment weed was calling… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Common sense told me that I didn’t want to lie to my family constantly, steal all the time, and drug myself into a coma.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“If you use sex whenever you want with whomever you want, you’re treating it like trash, like it means nothing. Imagine a piece of… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“As I sat on the floor in the corner of the concrete block, it felt as if the last domino had fallen in my… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I was no longer missing a piece. Jesus had taken all my insufficiencies, washed them away, and filled the very core of my being… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“God could not overlook the plight of the orphan or the widow, the victim of genocide, war, or rape; He could not turn His… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I’d been so used to the court system and thinking of myself as a criminal. I’d been so used to pleading in abeyance, proclaiming… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“I tried to think and hope for the best, but it didn’t change who I was. It didn’t change my core, my desires, my… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“We live in a world full of contracts. When someone fails to meet the outlined terms of the contract, we seek a better suitor.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
“Perhaps life’s simplest and most frequent mistake is to take who we are for granted in our anxious anticipation of who we might be.… — Michael J Heil Copy Share Image
