Oh Lord, in whose hands are life and death, by whose power I am sustained, and by whose mercy I am spared—look down upon me with pity.

When we can’t understand the Lord’s choices,

Our greatest struggle when the devil attacks our thoughts is due to us not talking to God. When you have a negative view of you and you lay that on the Father it gives you a reason to stay far rather than to draw close. God wants relationship with us. If we’re not talking to Him then we’re laying down our sword of the Spirit.

The obsession with proving there were warrior women in history is kinda weird, honestly. Like it’s cool where it happens and their life stories tend to be really interesting, but acting like women were just worthless if none of them fought in war is high key weird to me, and it is equally weird when fiction acts this way too.

“It is possible for men to have a great name for piety, and yet to be workers of iniquity; and those that are so will receive the greater damnation. Secret haunts of sin, kept under the cloak of a visible profession, will be the ruin of the hypocrites. Living in known sin nullifies men's pretensions, be they ever so specious.”

“Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.”

Beware of no man more than yourself. We carry our worst enemies within us.

Even in conservative circles, the traditional saying, “God hates the sin but loves the sinner” has been so often repeated that such passages as Psalm 5:5, “You hate all who do iniquity,” and Psalm 11:5, “And the one who loves violence His soul hates,” have been practically decanonized. For many, it is an unfortunate miscalculation of the Holy Spirit that right on the heels of such a passage as John 3:16, we read the words, “The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.” (John 3:36). 

"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God."