The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Pray daily.

Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through—or at least around—his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn’t have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

August. The lines are the shortest, though.