But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

And there are times that you got to speak up, and you’ve got to call things what they are!

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.