It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin because He craves righteousness, but also, simply, because He loves us.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

Only stupid men would want stupid wives!

All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce murder yes but divorce never.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.