This book is about the search for solid foundations – certain truths on which to build your worldview. After searching, I've discovered them. Certain foundations are both necessary and inescapable. I will explain these qualities in Chapter
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“I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters.”
― Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
― Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.
“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.”
― Looking for Alaska
“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.”
― Looking for Alaska
“The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is to win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."
[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]”
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[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]”
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