Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.