God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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

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.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

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

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living