Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

I want faith; but I am faithless

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.