When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.