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.

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

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.