...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

People are always ruining things for you.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

Don't let fear decide your future.