In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

There's little comfort in the wise

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

Promise you'll think of me every second?