“Temptation comes in a warm breeze, sin sits in the storm, shame drowns out redemption, and mercy extends from the beams of God's love.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“Excuse me, your attention please.”
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
“For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”
Source: Can't Get Enough
“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“In the 1640s, a formerly pious London teenager named Sarah Wight suffered four years of spiritual agonies. As she recalled: ‘I could see nothing but Hell, and wrath: I was as desperate, as ever was any … I felt myself, soul and body, in fire and brimstone already.’ From that agonised conviction, it was only a short step to wonder if ‘there was no other Hell, but that which I felt’. At least that held out the hope that death would end her sufferings. On that basis she attempted suicide several times, thinking that ‘if I made away [with] myself, there was an end of my misery, and that there was no God, no Heaven; and no Hell’. But the very fact she had such thoughts convinced her that she ‘was damned already, being an unbeliever’.”
Source: Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
“Adam and Eve, God's first image-bearers, made to love and reflect God in creation, had now become the world's first sinners.
Everyone born after Adam inherited it. And, just like Eve, I from birth, would experience the remnants of her dealings with the serpent. Being born human meant that I had the capacity for affection and logic. Being born sinful meant both were inherently broken... Desires exist because God gave them to us. But homosexual desires exist because sin does. Loving Him, as were were created to do, involves both the will and the affections, but sin steals this love God placed in us for Himself and tells it to go elsewhere.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“To leave her, us, our love, made no sense apart from the divine doing of God. She was both my woman and my idol. An unqualified god without an ounce of deity. She was the eye Jesus said to gouge out and the right hand He commanded me to cut off (Matthew 5:29-30). Though it was as painful as the extreme act of removing a part of the body, it was better for me to lose her than to lose my soul.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“What You are calling me to do, I can't do it on my own, but I know enough about You to know that You will help me," I said to God, my new friend. I didn't know that the confession of my inability to please Him and the shifting of my back away from the sins I'd previously embraced was repentance. Nor did I recognize that my resolve to believe that He could be to me what no one else could, was faith. But it was. Without asking me my permission, a good God had come to my rescue.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“The enemy doesn't want us to see the truth. He'd rather have us stay in deception and darkness. So when we see the ugliness, we can be confident the light's shining and exposing us so we can be healed.”
Source: Shades of Light
“LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into finding greater joy in identifying with their sin rather than their Creator.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“Living your life without knowing your worth is a sin.”
Source: I Can Touch You