Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can..

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's pr….

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times..

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

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

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain..

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….

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..

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..

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

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me..

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….

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good p….

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

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….

My grandmother influenced me so deeply..

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….

Easter is never deserved..

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world..

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. ….

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