It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

With God, it isn’t who you were that matters; it’s who you are becoming.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

Revived spirit, restored strength.

I’m beginning to feel as though we’re in some kind of cocoon, I’m just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.

A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

They don't want you to win.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.