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“I also saw that he, along with countless others in the church, had fallen prey to our culture’s idolatry of romantic love. To him, the litmus test of human flourishing was sexual expression in marriage.”
― David Bennett, A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus

“But of the many things he did, one of the most striking to me is his forgiving of sin.” “Really?” I said, shifting in my chair, which was perpendicular to his, in order to face him more directly. “How so?” “The point is, if you do something against me, I have the right to forgive you. However, if you do something against me and somebody else comes along and says, ‘I forgive you,’ what kind of cheek is that? The only person who can say that sort of thing meaningfully is God himself, because sin, even if it is against other people, is first and foremost a defiance of God and his laws. “When David sinned by committing adultery and arranging the death of the woman’s husband, he ultimately says to God in Psalm 51, ‘Against you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight.’ He recognized that although he had wronged people, in the end he had sinned against the God who made him in his image, and God needed to forgive him.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

“Nothing is more important in the battle against porn than a growing love for Christ and appreciation of all we have received in him.”
― Vaughan Roberts, The Porn Problem

“I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that’s inside me!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition