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“What made me love Christ wasn’t that all of a sudden I figured out how to do life. What made me love Christ is that when I was at my worst, when I was at my lowest point, when I absolutely could not clean myself up and there was nothing anybody could do with me, right at that moment, Christ said, “I’ll take that one. That’s the one I want.”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“Study hard, little one. For if you can read, you can slip into the pages of a book and escape into your mind.”
― Heart of Stone
― Heart of Stone
“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” The”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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