The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)