We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

You change your life by changing your heart.

We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.