Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.