“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.”

“The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part...”

“The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.”

“The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.”

“Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it”

“We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.”

“If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will d...”

“NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed...”

“Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and ef...”

“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His story...”

“I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern ...”

“When we soak our soul in the grace of the Gospel, we'll find our desire to spend time with Him in prayer changing. We'll begin to carry on a nonstop conversation with Him in our heart because we kn...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”