Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.