“God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.”

“Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".”

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

“Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.”

“Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.”

“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”

“Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency”

“The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but its only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.”

“If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.”

“Dont let a day go by without asking who you areeach time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”

“We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen -- feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other ti...”

“Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought.Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action. Action to realization, and back again to thoughts.For the m...”

“Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a dai...”

“The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.”

“I assumed my first undivided responsibility.”