Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.