I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.
Life is not yours to take.
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having
It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.
Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.
The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.
The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool. -The Christmas List- p. 296
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
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