The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

from Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.

The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

Of all the pairs the Throne endorsed None rose to burn as bright As Lucifer, the Morning Star, And Lucinda, his Evening Light

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.