Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.