By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.