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

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

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.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

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

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

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