I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.