A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.