Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.