Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.