For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people. — Steven James Copy Share Image
“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly,… — Steven James Copy Share
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am… — Steven James Copy Share
“Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl. Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.” — Steven James Copy Share
Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it,… — Steven James Copy Share
“Do you know how to turn someone into a monster?” “I’m not sure. No.” “Let him be himself without restraint.” — Steven James Copy Share
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free… — Steven James Copy Share
“Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.” — Steven James Copy Share
“Part of living is acknowledging people’s pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it’s always nighttime in the depths,… — Steven James Copy Share
“Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss” — Steven James Copy Share
Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the… — Steven James Copy Share
“I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with… — Steven James Copy Share
“Well, I don’t know for sure if it’s still there, but when we lived in Minnesota, we would drive through Janesville to get to… — Steven James Copy Share
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of… — Steven James Copy Share
