My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

Macalester Park Publishing is a small publishing house run by my friends Dan, Sue, Jenny Franklin and Sarah Franklin Crose.  They have diligently been reprinting some classic Glenn Clark books, as well as introducing new exciting writing to encourage spiritual growth.  Glenn Clark was the founder of the CFO camps, and in order to understand why they work so well to help people become "Athletes of the Spirit", Glenn's books are a must read.  The first Glenn Clark book I ever read (and still highly recommend) was I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes.  Don't miss his autobiography: A Man's Reach.  Additionally, the Franklins have published Adventures in a Laboratory of Prayer by Rhea Zakich, which is featured in Fred's audio story (click on the Fred flower pot on the front page!)  There are two books which contain some of my writing as well:  The Journey:  Celebrating 75 years of Living Prayer (CFO's anniversary book) and A Field Guide to Practical YouthMinistry.  Thank you, Franklins for keeping these written words alive and out there!  Visit their bookstore at this link.


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