Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person.

I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.

Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

I don't believe in a sense of home.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.