The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it’s the right guy, you’ll know, because he’ll cherish you.
Friends don’t get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.
You don’t have love without sacrifice; you can’t have sacrifice without love.
I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they’re going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.
God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.
The truth was this: Love is a decision.
It’s never too late with truth. It stands outside time.
Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.
You’re gifted to do something.
Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us – the spiritual.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life – and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
I’m receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
You can’t base your decisions on anyone’s opinion but yours and God’s.
New steps. That’s what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God’s plan for their lives.