God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

Jesus never pussyfooted