Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

If you have not suffered opposition in the journey of life, then, you are not real.

Hope is the light through which we see the future.

In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

Anyone who thinks Christmas doesn't last all year just doesn't have a Mastercard.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.