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.

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.

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.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.