I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.