No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

...which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far country.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.