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

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.