The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.