If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.