Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them, there I am.Cristen Rodgers

Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and writeTake them out of the darkness, Into the light

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

I don't gossip about myself.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.