There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

Even death is going to die!

The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Because of grace so many people will miss salvation

There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.