Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)