We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

God never abandons His children.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Allah never changes a people's state unless they change what's in themselves

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.