I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.

Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine.

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.