I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

In every situation, there is a sacred answer.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.