The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.