Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.
There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.
I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.
The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
Life is not yours to take.
Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
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