Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, “The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

With God, it isn’t who you were that matters; it’s who you are becoming.

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.

And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10

He called himself "chief among sinners" yet proclaimed himself made new in Christ.

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.