“All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.”

“The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace.”

“Unbelief, which causes fear, always limits God's use of a life.”

“But this show, this shower of fire and ice and blood, reminded him yet again that God is faithful. He keeps his promises. While our ways are not his ways and we can never understand him this side of heaven, Rayford was assured again that he was on the side of the army that had already won this war.”

“My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.”

“There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.”

“Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.”