And lo I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

With God, all things are possible.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.