Davis Bunn

“I was thinking...""We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker”

“Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.”

“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I don't know-" The cop pointed straight at him. "Jeffrey Adams! Front and center!" The black man helped him rise to his feet. "Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are?”

“I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?”

“God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.”

“Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.”

“Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".”

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

“His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.”