Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.