[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

The sky already fell. Now what?