It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

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.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.