Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.