“The pit is of my own making.  The rescue is of God’s love.  And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

“Walk a bit further. There is a different land not far away. The people in it have the magic to break the icy fingers of the great death.I heard that you don’t even have to pay.However, you have to find their door.It is only found by those who pay the other price.”

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback.”

“My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…”

“And books, they offer one hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

“The greatest threat that I need to be rescued from is myself. Everything comes a lot easier after that.”

“After enough failed attempts to rescue myself, I finally realized that I am my own worst first responder.”

“Who in the world would walk into the very things that we created in order to save us from what we created by dying right in the middle of what we created? God did it by creating something called Christmas.”

“Why was God born in a borrowed barn to two impoverished teenagers in a town far off the pages of commerce and industry? Because true greatness will always shed the mantel of privilege in order to meet us in the muck of our lives.”

“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”

“It’s not that God can’t rescue us. It’s that we choose not to be rescued because we’re too blind to see the necessity of it.”

“Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.”