As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

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.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?