Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I’d been searching for.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

Because people heal a whole lot faster when they're with someone who loves them

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.