“All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.”

“We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross”

“God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.”

“All things work together for good for those who are called according to His purpose.”

“The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!”

“There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.”

“God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. HIs goal is not to pamper us physically, but to perfect us spiritually.”