It's fun until someone gets hurt. . . then it's hilarious.
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
They must find it difficult. . . those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.