We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

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

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

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.

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.