Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

Demons don't move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.

God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself.

My lips are kissing your heart every moment of our lives.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.