Ted Haggard Quotes

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

Jesus didn't hold people accountable; He just held them close - because it works better.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this." "Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid." I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208