I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

changing lives started with changing my own.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

God is waiting on you to believe that you are capable

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love ex...

The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been w...

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals de...

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!

Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus.

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'