We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person.

I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.

Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

Letting her head hang, all she could do was think what a freaking mess she had gotten herself into.And not even Ben & Jerry's could get her out of this.

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.