God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.