No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you".

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

I like taking up exceptional characters.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

So I wrote. I wrote as though God thought my voice mattered. I wrote because I believed a human story was beautiful, no matter how small the human was. I wrote because I didn't make myself, God did. And I wrote like he'd invited me to share my true "self" with the world.