No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
We should not assume, however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.
Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends.
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.