Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.

If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.