To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.