The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.