Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

The best way to protect evil, to deny it existence.

Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.