If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

I am not particularly interested insaving time I prefer to enjoy it.

Be Patient to become a Patent

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.