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

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

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.

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

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am