The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Don’t be overwhelmed . . . take it one day and one prayer at a time.

The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for. That’s because you develop God’s heart of love for them.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

I have studied at the school of the world.