No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.