"Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering thing compared with that richness & energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.” -- C.S. Lewis

 "My spiritual gift is not caring about your feigned outrage." -- Mollie Z. Hemingway

"Alcohol (or your drug/behavior of choice) is just the tip of the iceberg. Of course, the tip of an iceberg was enough to sink the Titanic. . . . Memo to self: One day at a time." 
-- Dave Kepple

"Being a writer and being a pastor are virtually the same thing for me:  an entrance into chaos." -- Eugene Peterson

"No matter how much you have grown, God is not content for you to remain as you are; and no matter how little you have grown, He has not given up on you. He wants to liberate you more and more from any inner chains that bind you and deform you -- chains of hostility or resentment, of self-blame or regrets, of anxiety or fear, chains of inferior or superior feelings." -- Warren and Ruth Myers in 'Discovering God's Will'