To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.
But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Don’t try to write what other people are writing – write what is true to you.
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way – rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other’s lives.
I have Tourettes syndrome.
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 truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn’t walked on the ocean floor.
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104.
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it’s not.
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?