The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!