If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

God's timing is rarely our timing.