Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.

We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.