I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Love happens when people forgive.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Perfect love drives out fear

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

doubt and faith do not exist in the same person at the same time

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Today is the best day to accomplish something.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.