I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I’d been searching for.

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress.

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.