The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.