God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.