If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.