The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.