The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today!

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride

There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

invaders always destroy libraries.

Living the life you were destined to live.