Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

A kiss is only as sweet as the heart that gives it.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)