Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.

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

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

The church’s task is to open people’s eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God

I see you, Khya. I've always seen you. And except for you tendency to pretend you hate me most days, I like what I see.

You have right to be angry, insult and slap. But later you have to forgive.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.