Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.