We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

I have loved you all my life, Mal, " I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost my breath in the shadowy remembrances.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Children, being small and weak, have little market value.

Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.