Amy Grant

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.