I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.

If the words are just words, then the book is just pages. But if the words capture great ideas and intimately frame them so that our lives are transformed by the weight of them, then you have a book that can never be defined by its pages.

A good book leaves you better than the way it found you.

The gift in writing is not the accolades of having written. It's the peace of knowing that a life was changed because of what you wrote.

Writing the story of my life limits the whole of its storyline to this single, solitary vantage point from which I survey the world. So, why wouldn’t I want it written by the God who not only sits at every vantage point in all of existence, but Who was also the One that brought everyone of them into existence?

Writing is easy. It’s actually saying something that’s hard.

I can read a thousand words and have every one of them drift past my heart without touching any part of it. Or I can read a handful of words and have them seize my heart with such a grip that I will be forever held fast. Such is the difference between the art of writing and the lesser task of arranging words.

When you sit down with a good book, you will stand up as a better person.

If we do not determine to aspire to that which we write about, we should rid ourselves of every single sheet of paper and discard every pen that we would use to write upon them.