Speak after the manner of men.

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Remember it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming.

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.

...so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.

We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now -- not later, once we get it together but right now in all the messes we've made.

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.