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.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.