Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

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

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.