I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.