God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step

Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.