Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.