You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.
I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.
. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.
It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside. ” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.