It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

I was raised to face any challenge.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

MISS PRISMMemory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

There is no such thing as a “social gospel.” It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. “If any man preach any other gospel unto you . . .let him be accursed” [Galatians 1:9 KJV].

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.