We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.