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.

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?

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

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Necessity does everything well.

The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.