Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

Your silences remain

Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.