For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Most fan fiction is terrible.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.