Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.