Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.