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

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

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

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

Hurry always empties a soul.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.