Good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are.
Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
You are worth more than what people say or think of you.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.