I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books..

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing..

I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own bu….

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to n….

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to d….

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk..

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder..

And it can be a way of healing..

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth..

My grandmother influenced me so deeply..

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work….

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers..

Easter is never deserved..

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You..

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love..

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly con….

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic..

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb..

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. ….