May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

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.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

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.

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

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.

Why the hell would I bring you?” she exclaimed. All her anger turned at his presumption. It was a sign of her agitation that she’d sworn.”Because,” he said, face calm, “I can teach you how to stake a Strigoi.””THE HELL YOU CAN,” I said aloud to no one.

Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa.ʺRight.ʺ….ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink.ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian…..Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It...

I like him.””Like or like?”Oh, there’s a difference?

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that’s what helps me get to an emotional place.

So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.

You strive all through your life, to get somewhere, to be something, Some One, to matter, to have this, to have that, fill up your life with possessions, bonds, connections and in the end, the greed is still there, one does not want to let go, not unless the great gods come down and say...

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

This is a door that the Lord holds open for you. Walk through it. He who has called shall also equip. Everything you lack shall be provided.

What do you think destiny is? A smooth path that never jostles you? No. When you walk in your destiny, you will crash and fall more times than you can count. But the secret is to hold on to God’s vision for your life — and for the lives of those He puts under your...

I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God...

I do not like the darkness, but please don’t make the light too strong.

Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.

We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.

You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only after his mother risked her life to save him! Closer to our time, Clara Barton was instrumental in starting the Red Cross. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin put fire into people’s heart...

The best thing any man can do or be which will be of utmost importance both to him and the society is to be a “TRUE CHRISTIAN

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill

The bishop was aghast. “You would threaten me?”Christian didn’t hesitate with his answer.”For her life, aye.””You would jeopardize your soul for her? She is a heretic and a witch.””She is a woman. My woman.”His words only succeeded in angering the bishop more. “I will have you excommunicated for this.”Christian pulled the black monk’s robe from...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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,...

Life is a journey