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

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

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.