Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness. Psalm 26:2—3 NIV

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.