Pape called Basil his sanctuary. In truth we all exist in our own sanctuaries-but I don’t mean cathedrals or prisons. I’m talking about our hearts and minds, which imprison us in anxiety, dear, insecurity, anger...

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.

Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His...

Everyone is a lonely victim of life’s complexity.

Billos ran. He tore down the shore, bounded up on the rock, and dove into the air. The warm water engulfed him. A boiling heat knocked the wind from his lungs. The shock alone might...

I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch...

Dive deep. Drown willingly

Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?

He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”~Blink

It’s neither and it’s both. That’s the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist’s intention.

Keep your words. This pain is no life.” “You only feel pain because you’re alive, boy!” the keeper thundered. “This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff....

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Everything I’ve written up to this point is crap. Now I’m going to write the real one

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.~Slater

Valerik spit to one side. “We laugh at religion’s brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church’s coffers. It is in deed.” “I agree. That kind of love is...

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this...

no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them....

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won’t embrace it so easily. And death must...