I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

For the sake of the world, they had to cling to what they knew, not what their emotions demanded from them.

Trust the Father. Then you will master this world with pleasure rather than be mastered by it. Then you will find the power to command any storm.

If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?

Grace is calling the one who's trying to protect her 'Bobbie,'" he said. Ben thought about that. Eli rarely spoke about the particulars of the world at large, enslaved to darkness as it was. And Ben had long ago realized that it wasn't his place to ask for particulars. So much was beyond his understanding

Instructions were written by each inset, detailing the correct amount of force to use so the bone wouldn't break with enough force to cut through the skin. Along one wall sat a metal-framed bed. And on the bed lay several piles of four-by-four wooden blocks. A neatly folded stack of towels and several coils of string had been set at the head of the bed. Atop them lay a large sledgehammer and vise grips.

Let go of all that you think you know about Me, so that you can KNOW Me.

A warrior without pretension was unencumbered by distraction.

You have to let go of what you think you know. There's a narrow Way where all things are possible. The price to walk it is death, which is why it's such a rare find, a treasure buried in a field. Most will never seek it because they're terrified of what they will find.

For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest.

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.