“God helps those who help themselves.'...If God waits around to seeif we can pull off miracles without him, then I concludethat Godis playing games with us.”

“...a person can't tame God. He's wild as a lion. He'll haunt you.”

“We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses,those carved from our hands, our sweat,and those not of our own making.”

“Now I will know alwaysthe thrill of a kiss,and know what it is I am cursed to live without.”

“Amazing how the soup pots of small townsare just waiting to boil over anything at all.”

“(N.B. I think this is from a hymn.)O joy that seekest me through pain,I cannot close my heart to thee;I trace the rainbow through the rain,And feel the promise is not vain,That morn shall tearless be.”

“God helps those who help themselves.”