Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
I don't mind playing absolute bastards. . . I just don't want to play the grouch.
I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.
I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.