We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.