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

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.

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.

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.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely

Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?

Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Be in harmony, yet be different.

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.