When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

Do you recall that night in June Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the ländler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Don't make your life bustop final destination, keep moving, focus on your VISION and don't give in.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

Live as you were created to live.

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.