“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”
“I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.”
“God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.”
“She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.”
“Spirit. And it will be that love,”
“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
“Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.”
“The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.”
“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”
“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
“but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”
“Turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra 3-plus percent, or $10,000 on a $300,000 house.”
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