Quotes from Steven James

We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.

All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

We want to pin a reason to it or else we get terrified anyone else might do the same thing. Including us.

God can handle all your needs, mend the heart that hurts and bleeds, give the lonely something true that changes lives and makes them new. Jesus heals the fractured soul, makes it breathe, makes it whole, gives us hope when hope is gone, breaks the darkness, offers dawn, to all who follow, all who dare— the door is open, love is there.

Part of living is acknowledging people's pain and grief, but not letting it take over your heart. Though it's always nighttime in the depths, the waves still reflect the day.

finding God brings meaning into every moment—I

Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss

to be a fiction writer, you also need to be a psychologist (understanding people's personalities and intentions), a philosopher (asking big questions about meaning and human nature), and a poet (breathing life into your words and the spaces between them).

Tryphena?" "It's Greek. Means 'delicate.' Brin came across it the other day somewhere in the Bible,

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.