"The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down."
"A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God."
"God kept them in the wilderness so they could see the weakness and frailty of their own hearts"
"Sometimes at the most painful time in life we want to break that moment of pain for the individual when it's the very point at which God wanted to bring them"
"If you don't learn humility, he will break you"
"Love is not just an emotional feeling. Love will never be pure till Love comes with the will to be committed as well, not just the emotion of feeling"
"We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right."
"Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive."
"These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too."
"I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time."— (Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows)
"Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us."— (I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love)
"Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both, If your will is not committed to that person you have made a mockery of them"
"The most powerful weapon on earth is not the bomb, the most powerful weapon on earth is the truth"
"Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing."
"Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing"
"God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes"
"The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life"
"God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross"
"For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship"
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