It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.