It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

A life of abundance knows nothing about a mind that allows its obstacles to distract it from life's endless possibilities.

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea..

The shot was so precise that the bullet went out his forehead and shattered a whisky bottle against the wall behind the counter.

I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.