How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.