We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
God the Grand Weaver seeks those with tender hearts so that he can put his imprint on them. Your hurts and your disappointments are part of that design, to shape your heart and the way you feel about reality. The hurts you live through will always shape you. There is no other way.
God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.
But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.
For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.
In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.