A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

God's address is at the end of your rope.