The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.