“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 30:17”

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.”

“God’s judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God’s love quietly convicts.”

“But the judgment of God is not only an event that may take place some day in history when war or conflict might bring death to millions. His judgment is more than death—it is eternal banishment from the presence of God (2 Thessalonians 1:6–10; Revelation 20:11–15).”

“Beauty is in being who God made you to be with confidence.”

“God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.”

“Who are you?' One who has waited long for you to speak.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”

“Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23”

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”

“Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you’ve been knocked down. Failing Forward” 

“Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.”