My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

You're likable enough, Hillary.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Deep rivers run quiet.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.