The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.