Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.