His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.