God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.