By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

With God, it isn’t who you were that matters; it’s who you are becoming.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.

Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.

Well I was a Gerber baby, so probably that was my first money. But in cash, I used to do lemonade stands a lot.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.