Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Harmony is everything, your central nervous system can bear witness to that in every area of your life...if you let your soul step to the open MIC!

Lord I thank you for the wise-words and grace to write.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I'm absolutely terrified of heights, so maybe it's something I'd like to do in the future... although even saying it scares me! But I would absolutely love to overcome my fear of heights.

I burned too bright. I saw too much.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.

There is a tide in the affairs of men