“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.

To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

All romances end at marriage.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

The endings won’t end you.

I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.

Ghosting is an expression of extreme anxiety and fear of intimacy. As much as it hurts to be on the receiving end, please know it was never about you.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.