Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don’t press in for God’s best.