The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip...

But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing...

You’re not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

I’ve never minded finding out what others thought I didn’t know. Titus Ray, Chapter 3

Sin said, “Lust was never satisfied. She was the largest of the three, and had the loudest, most unforgiving cry. When I tried to give her breast milk, Lust wanted more food in addition, so...

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down...

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

You have to leave room for God’s grace. Perfect is God’s job.

I’ve got a lot of homework to do, and none of it has anything to do with school.

He wanted desperately to stay, just a little while longer. But he couldn’t be here, in this place, with her. It was calm here. She was innocent and beautiful and perfect. He was not. He...

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

And I’m glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can’t be corrupted, I’ve just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the...

Facing our fears, skeletons, and mistakes is paramount in finding ourselves-in living with ourselves. Once it’s done, that fear will be laid to rest, and she’ll be stronger for having dealt with it and have...

Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people.”–from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans

I am a firm believer that the challenges we endure in life evolve us to be the peole we become. I have learned that life is what you make of it, what you do is...

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis...

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf....

Terry recalled far better days when she’d risen bright and early every morning…. Days before darkness had closed in and refused to leave….

There’s something to be said for silence. –Titus Ray, Chapter 25

Sin says, “Do you have a relationship with God, the gods, or a emulate something in the fashion of a god (nature, science, etc.? I use religion as a pacifier to make people think that...

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not...

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.

The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.

He could look into your eyes and without saying a word assure you that you were the most fascinating woman in the world and call you beautiful in six languages.

We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.

And keep them thinking in terms of ‘being good’ as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it...

Life is a gift, however long it lasts. It’s God’s to give and take away as He sees fit. We go through life thinking we’re entitled to our ninety, but we’re not entitled to anything....

A fallen planet is no easy place to live.Ya, but heaven is.

My gut feeling says he needs a second chance. Like we all do.” WINTER’S PAST

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one’s beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees,...

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father’s study door to have a chat.

I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Which would give her an ulcer first? All the aspirin and prescription pain medication she took, or Jack Carlton? Then again, that left only one cause, since he was the reason she needed the drugs...

Islamic jihadists making sacrifices tended to create gruesome headlines.–Titus Ray, Chapter 29

It’s neither and it’s both. That’s the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist’s intention.

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That’s all most of them mean by ‘Christian.