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.

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.

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

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.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

He read vividly.

It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.