Steven M Cates

“God’s highest agenda is not our immediate happiness. I believe that God is much more committed to our eternal joy, our spiritual growth, and the condition of our hearts.”
― Craig Groeschel, Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not

“someone who does the right thing, stands up for himself, who knows right from wrong; a human who treats people fairly and expects to be treated fairly, who knows his business and his work, and feels responsible for feeding and sheltering his family; a human who knows how to love and to learn from his wife, and how to teach his children well so they can teach their children well so that the story and skills of a good and decent life go on.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, All the Glimmering Stars

“An obedient man is free when in prison,” Quan said. “A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.”
― Randy Alcorn, Safely Home

“That’s the good thing ’bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.”
― Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together