Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?