Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

I will not change the world. Jesus will do that. I can, however, let Him use me to change the world for one person.

I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.

Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room.

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?""Because she loves you, " said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

If people aren't on board with your dreams, there is still that one man canoe. Sail on and slay on with it.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.

All these boys were lethal. It really wasn't fair.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.