When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

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.

Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best.

The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

After September 11th, freedom of speech in America has become a topic that's touchier than a Vatican summer camp.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.