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

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?