When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.