“Dont ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.”

“Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.”

“DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.”

“I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.”

“We dont know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.”

“Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.”

“Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.”

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a sid...”

“Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”