Madeleine Tope

“Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“Given our condition, and the explicit duty God has given us for dealing with it – namely to be killing sin while it is in us – we must be actively at work doing it. Someone who is assigned to kill an enemy, but leaves before striking the killing blow and finally finishing him off, leaves his assignment incomplete (see Galatians 6:9, Hebrews 12:1, and 2 Corinthians 7:1).”
― John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

“My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself.  'There is nothing to be compared to it.  Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will.”
― Jane Austen, Emma