We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.