Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.