Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

When you truly love God, you obey Him.

A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!

Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them quite that seriously. They're not a theological treatise; they were never intended to be. I find myself in awkward situations sometimes because people think I'm some great authority on spiritual warfare, but I'm not. I never have been.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.