Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

Teresa of Avila, a sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, wrote, "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the world; yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; yours are the hands with which God is to bless people now.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

That's the beautiful mystery: we have a God who chooses to need us. We have a God who doesn't want to change the world without us. We have a God who longs to cooperate with us, to allow us to fail and flounder and who promises to make up for our shortcomings, but nonetheless wants us.

An older charismatic woman told me, "If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work." There