“Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.”

“So what do you do when you are stuck?The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But Im not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sundays a comin prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to ...”

“It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.”

“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

“Heres a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you dont even like people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who arent even aliv...”

“Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do w...”

“As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure...”

“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”

“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”

“The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But...”

“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces spe...”

“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ”