God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.