May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

Even if you’re not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

Remember that you have never done anything so bad that you cannot return to the arms of Jesus.

Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

I love you Rose, I love you with everything that I am, which may not be much, but it’s all yours.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through...

The Mayflower sped across the white-tipped waves once the voyage was under way, and the passengers were quickly afflicted with seasickness. The crew took great delight in the sufferings of the landlubbers and tormented them mercilessly. “There is an insolent and very profane young man, Bradford wrote, “who was always harrassing the poor people in...

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn’t room for what I wanted to write.

You’re not Forsaken. You’re Chosen for Purpose.

I am not sure what this love will do to me, but I will not deny it.

They were literally inches from being buried alive in this place, millions of miles from home or any sort of civilization, where they would never be found or mourned… and Caine continued to smile.Sweet heavens, he was completely out of his mind!

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?

I did not know English women were so strong.

He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.

Far be it from me to slow down two badass supermodels on a mission, but we have a problem,” a male voice said wryly.I could see Christian out of the corner of my eye as we turned, his stance and movements almost synchronized to my own. We shared a look, our expressions almost identically similar,...

If God doesn’t use people who’ve failed, who’s left for Him to use?

I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, “Kill them all, and let God sort them out.” A bumper sticker read, “God will judge evildoers; we just have to get them to him.” I saw a T-shirt on a soldier that said, “US Air Force… we don’t die; we...

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Life is a journey

Jesus didn’t die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.

There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say “Jesus, it’s for you.

Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering the nature of things in light of higher principles; instead, it caused them to leave the field of battle without any defense before the onslaught of secularism, rationalism, and empiricism, which...

I’ve learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you never know what’s over the next wave……and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.

He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world—there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as...

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There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

Money is God’s seed and Christians should learn how to properly sew it.

As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn’t matter, what it smells like doesn’t matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us...

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: ‘Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!’ (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all...

I wish I could claim that I said this being an author, but alas I did not.” –I try to leave out the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard

As Christians you should be like bridges to Heaven; letting people walk on you to get there.

Never underestimate what God can do with what you’ve been through!

I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Pride had a very similar character with Lust. He was difficult to satisfy, but rather than desiring tasty foods, Pride desired valuable possessions. Man clung to Pride more than the other two because he was the firstborn son. Pride had a very sensitive sense of touch and an attention-grabbing voice. Even when Pride was not...

Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?

Dive deep. Drown willingly

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.” – Ernesto.

You my dear, will suffer seven years of tribulation. You will be left behind…

Why do I keep losing, Harvey? Don’t tell me God’s trying to make me a better person. Don’t tell me all of this is so I can be stronger. Because I’m not stronger, Harv. I’m weak. I keep getting weaker and weaker, and I keep praying and praying…’ He paused and swallowed, Adam’s apple bobbing...

In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn’t just happen once. It’s forever moving in you and in your life.