Courage encourages courage.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.