The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.