The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

And it can be a way of healing.

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

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.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.