...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.

He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.

Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.

Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.

Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era.

The only way to have great customers is to be one.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social.

We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.