“Drop a bombshell on the negative thoughts and judgments--blow them up, and do what you know is right for you.”
Source: Bariatric Bombshell: An Honest Approach to Weight Loss Surgery Success
“..But here's the thing, Em. God can find a way to redeem even the worst fo choices, if you let Him..
..Emelia turned the concept over in her mind, trying to reconcile this idea of a God who could take the worst things in your life and use them to lead you to something good..”
Source: Can't Help Falling
“Ossip, I think you are a humbug...you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet....”
Source: The Secret Agent
“Many people today struggle to hear God's voice. Too often, we expect to hear Him in the thundering of majestic words, when He often chooses to speak in a soft, gentle whisper. But He does speak! He speaks to us when we pray and when we read His Word. He also speaks through His Church and godly counsel. But He will only speak to a heart that has been prepared to receive all that He wants to share, one that is filled with brokenness, repentance, and expectation.”
Source: All My Love, Jesus: Personal Reminders From the Heart of God
“He was telling her to live in the ‘yet’—that transitional time where she could grow and learn until He was ready to fulfill His will.”
Source: Matters of the Heart
“...if He has a message to get across to us, He will continually reaffirm what He has said through a variety of ways.”
Source: Your Life Still Counts: How God Uses Your Past To Create A Beautiful Future
“Don’t pray to God when you mind is made up. Otherwise, you will hear what you want to hear.”
“No worry about your race, boy. Time changes the nature of them all, in the end.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“The Essence of Power is for Performance”
Source: Listening To God: How to Hear when God is Speaking
“The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist in the vertical line of biography where we expect to meet it. It is not to be found under his own name and must be sought under those of others, in the biographical columns of his followers. The more self-contained the individuality from which the life derives, the more collective, without any figurative speaking, is its story.”
Source: Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings