I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

Whether your transformation happens through trauma, surprise, or intention, the process begins because of a growing need for change.

The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Art can only be taught by artists.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.