When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity.

Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it.

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?

...and yet I am what they think I am.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.