Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

So loving is the universe, so joyful, so determined to give us everything we need and to love us and show us the way to live, too, that we are beaten to the ground, boiled by God's waves, as we play in the surf.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

... where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground.