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We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus
So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.
You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.
God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.
Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.
I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.
Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.
I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.
To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
I do feel pressure to look a certain way but am fighting that and focusing on being comfortable in my own skin exactly as it is.