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

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.

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.

You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.

Chains of gold are still chains.

Warriors will always have wounds from the battle, but they are only stronger from them.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.

I always want to watch something I've done, so that I know what I didn't do well.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.