It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can