I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.

Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.

I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

I dreamed of being very attracted to my future husband, and I'm extremely attracted to him. I dreamed of having lots of fun together and being able to be goofy and be accepted, that's all there.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

You see? Age is no barrier to destiny.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.