The Debt Quotes

“Another paragraph from Chris’s journal replays in my mind: “The things that tempt me from following God daily aren’t sinful things,” he wrote. “They’re good things—duty to my family, to my father’s company, to the people at my church. But if I am going to devote myself to following God, I must be willing to leave the good things behind as I seek the best thing—total submission and obedience.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Debt: A Novel

“In an age when everyone else is terribly concerned with political correctness, my husband's preaching is uncommonly blunt. Perhaps that's the secret of his success.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Debt

“Listen to the world and you'd think there are many ways to God', he says. 'But Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and no man comes to the Father but by me". So it doesn't matter what Oprah or Dr. Phil or Deepak Chopra says. They don't have the keys to Heaven. Only Jesus holds the keys to life and death, and if he says he's the way, then he is.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Debt