Paul Coughlin

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

False niceness can never and will never produce an authentic relationship, just like weeds won't magically produce zinnias.

God's Good Women inspire young and old, male and female.

God loves a spirited woman who does more than sit with her hands folded as the world crumbles.

God takes the sin of cowardice very seriously.

Not every girl is blessed with a female role model who blazes a trail that gives others hope that they, too, can follow the same path.

Girls learn cattiness from sitting at the knee of the Nice Girl culture, in and outside of church.

Many women have been deeply hurt by their own gender.

Merely avoiding bad things doesn't make women good.

Your mother may have said, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," but Jesus wants you to do far more than manipulate people with...

I'm not going to pretend I don't have strengths when I do--that's just a churchy way of lying.

An isolated man is not a courageous man, at least not for very long.

I tricked him, not so he would feel grief but so he would feel relief, which came through grieving.

In order for our faith to remain alive and vibrant, for us to play our part in taking the courageous steps necessary to imitate Christ, we need...

Our "ideal Christian kid," boy or girl, is pusillanimous (lacking courage and manly strength), having the character and nature of a small animal,...

Cynicism is gossip with hair on its chest.

Study any important facet of life and there you will find scores of cynics who once believed in that arena but were somehow hurt in it.

Materialism is like drinking salt water: No matter how much you gulp, you're still thirsty.