When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today!

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Got nothing to say now, huh? Figures." She snorted. Hearing voices was one thing, but talking back to them probably hiked her up to a whole new level of psychosis. Awesome.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.