It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly.

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.