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.

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.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

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.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.