Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

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.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

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.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.