True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Our hearts lie. Something can 'feel' right and be completely wrong.

I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.

God is the Father of Jesus Christ.

Change is uncomfortable, but it’s helpful!

He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.

...the presence of each other and a lusty love of being, of living and knowing there was tomorrow and God knows how many more tomorrows and each a life and sufficient in itself...

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.