I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.