So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I’ve been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

In the past I had often tried to escape the grown-up world of sorrow through my imagination- dreaming that a handsome young lieutenant would ride to my rescue or that a great empresario would discover...

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It’s as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love...

You blame me and my country for your losses Miss Kimball. And I blame you and your country. But you and I are people, not countries. Did you kill my wife? My child? Would you...

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. “Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would–“”Four.” Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor’s thick black...

Depression, I’ve learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden–so that our choice to follow Him would be...

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

…Sometimes when people work for God, they get the idea that He should make their life all smooth and easy because they’re doing His work…It ain’t so. Jesus said life is gonna be hard. Period....

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Faith don’t come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He’s so trustworthy...

I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy’s whispers, not to other people’s opinions.

Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste – if you’re lucky.

Belief in Yahweh doesn’t come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry…To have faith...

You have beautiful hair”… and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and...