Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.