Sheila Key Quotes

Defeating lust is not about limiting a man’s encounters with women; it’s about empowering men to treat the women around them as whole people, daughters of Christ. The key to defeating lust is not to avoid looking at women; it’s to actually see them.

With experience comes resilience, and this is key in starting up. You need to be able to take a knock, get up and get on. Whether you’re trying something completely new or setting up in an industry you’ve worked in before, resilience gives you that competitive edge.

For Sheila, a key question was: Did the boys force Leslie to perform these acts or did she go along willingly? The matter of consent is a critical issue in most rape cases, except when the victim is so badly beaten that there can be no question that force was used. When victim and assailant know each other, the consent question can be difficult to answer. In this case, involving a supposedly retarded girl, it would even be more so.

At McLaurin, there were fewer Good Country People, more Angry Trailer Park People, which was fun. They had a sparkle about them. And their fighting was intense. Even the girls fought. In most fights, the boys scrapped with other boys to reclaim something that had been taken from them, usually things named Sheila or Tammy, while Sheila and Tammy also fought somewhere nearby.

There are some of you here today who feel like dead people. It is as if you are already six feet under, staring up at the top of your own locked coffin. This morning Jesus wants to set you free. You simply have to let go of the key and pass it through the little hole, where you see a tiny shaft of light.

This whole book has been leading up to this point. Vulnerability, the key to passion, requires all the things we’ve talked about. You cannot embrace passionate vulnerability if you cannot trust your spouse. You cannot be vulnerable if you cannot be yourself (and you cannot be yourself if you’re motivated by fear of your spouse having an affair or losing their love for you). You cannot be vulnerable if you’re full of shame for your past. You cannot be vulnerable if trust has been broken and hasn’t been rebuilt.

To master a feel for the water, the key is to be patient at the beginning of the propulsive action so you can build speed for the finish. The back half is

The foundational behavior which will make or break you when judgment falls upon the nation and the whole world is the purity of your sexual state.

If we attach ourselves to God through the Lord Jesus and to righteous people, and if we set Godly goals for ourselves, we can have a very positive life. If we do not attach ourselves to God, and we choose the wrong friendships, the wrong people, bad things can happen. It is all about who you attach yourself to.

I encourage all of you, one more time, to start learning good manners, if you do not already practice them. Say please, say thank you; hold the door for people.

We must have virtue in business, virtue in human relationships, virtue between students and teachers, virtue between employers and employees, virtue between neighbors, virtue between relatives, virtue between ourselves and people who do not respect us… virtue. God is looking at who we are in the crisis.

Every soul has a lock on it and there is only one key which fits the lock. There is a key and there is a lock. Jesus is the key that is the feeding tube, and he only fits into one particular soul lock.