To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.