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“I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.”
“She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.”
“I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.”
“To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.”
“Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.”
“You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.”
“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.”
“Hope is a fruit of proven character.”
“Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.”
“If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.”
“For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.”
“A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.”
“One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.”
“'Wild at Heart' created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher's part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.”
“The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.”
“'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.”
“I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.”
“I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.”
“The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.”
“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.”