Oh, a whole bunch. Stuff with Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp. Big movies.

You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say.” Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

keepin’ it real” for the world as much as it is keepin’ it holy for the Kingdom. My ultimate goal is, yes, to please the readers, but I must first please God. P.S. Maybe Peter...

Remember, this type doesn’t really believe He’ll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry...

Do you suppose kissing is like riding a bicycle?

Do You Believe?

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say “Jesus, it’s for you.

It fits my experience of Him.

Also, always encourage ‘being good’ over ‘doing good.’ Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. ‘Being good’ is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can...

Most of them don’t mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He’s indulgent.

God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn’t speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

If the only tool in Willem’s arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two...

The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there...

The air was filled with beings, flying hither and thither in otherworldly haste, and shouting as they went. Half of them were – if Scrooge could put words to it – darkness and evilness incarnate:...

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more...

freedom of choice,” then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, “Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time.”As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and...

Oh God, don’t let him die. Don’t let him die. Don’t let him die,” she repeated over and over again. Tears were streaming down her face but she was not making any noise. She would...

Jenny bowed her head as David began praying. It seemed too simple…but simple was what this world needed.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right...

A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

She wouldn’t pay attention to how wonderful he smelled. Or how gorgeous those blue eyes were when they sparkled with happiness. Nope. She wouldn’t think about it. Not one little bit.

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!

What are we, Charlie’s Angels?

Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.

This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the...

God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves.

For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as the day progressed, the grayness receded like a mist, the sky’s...

God, beauty, and your dreams are the only things really worth pursuing. When you do, you will find that they have all along been pursuing you.” Marianne Coyne

Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the...

Please, dear brother, do much more with that Bible of yours besides carry it for luck. It will bring you no such luck. But if opened, it will bring you life.

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop...

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you’ll make it.

Her mind returned to Dr. Chaturvedi’s testimony. He had turned to Christianity because he had discovered that he was not special. He seemed happy enough, but was he really happy? Was Christianity just a club...

Why do I think this is worth the risk?…Because I think Betty knew this would one day happen…One time she even said she believed our own government would conspire with other nations to exterminate God’s...

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as...

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They say ‘Consumerism’.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he...

Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms His child.

Funny how often something she’d been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want–when the real ‘need’ was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained...

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.