There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

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.

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?

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.

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.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

You have to discovery many things by yourself.

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.