Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.