Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

If you're going through a hard time or if you've experienced a miscarriage, so many women have come up to me and said they went through the same thing, and they never wanted to talk about it, so I hope my journey can help you and that you can find God in my life.

You will never know God unless you love your fellow man, beginning with your father.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.