To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.