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“Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but im...”
“It had been a long fifteen years. So much had changed in both their lives. Both hearts somehow sadly hardened. Let us just make it through, Claire whispered her desperate plea. It was her only pray...”
“The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow dispensed from the obligation to penetrate concrete reality. He will think that the eyes of ...”
“Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the heart was a new beginning.”
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.”
“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.”
“Thats where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations...”
“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about knowing God, they mean more than, ...”
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Ima...”
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldnt see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whi...”
“Somebodyd better pray for him, dont you think? He IS a lost soul.~Pastor John Linton”
“Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. Doesnt matter...”
“I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.”
“You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!”
“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.”
“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God. They prefer to thi...”
“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”
“You know, sometimes love can be staring you right in the face, and you can be too blind to see it.”
“Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.”
“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the...”