The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.
In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.
He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.