Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.