Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Opportunities are all around you, you just need to be able to see them.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.