Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.

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

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.