Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self - revelation.

... she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see ...

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE. - William Booth

Imperfect, but Perfectly Loved

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.

We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.

Love Others Today: Be a person whose convictions are based on God's Word, and do what God calls you to do to act on them.

Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. - Joyce Meyer

You may have some major strongholds in your life that need to be broken. Let me encourage you by saying, "God is on your side." There is a war going on, and your mind is the battlefield. But the good...

Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain

a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we...

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

"Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed."

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I am stained with corrupt splendor, I am a code for obscure secrets, I am a being apart, I was born in decadence, and I live over the water. I am as different as possible from you, and yet I am not...

More than a thousand veterans still remained unaccounted for, and his father, Richard Arthur Finnemore, was one of them.

It is easier to prevent an illness than to cure one. Clean living is the best medicine.

LAW: Long - term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold {or silver} supply without government interference.

Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered an explosion of global tourism

But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from...

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.