During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham's son to be. I'm so thankful he never gave up on me or quit loving me.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

Wounds. Broken places. Possibility. Change. Steps toward holiness. Imperfect progress. The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies. Grace. Love. Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before. And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.

The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.