My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.