“Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.”

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

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

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

“He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.”

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

“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.”