Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.