Perry continued, his voice even but firm as granite; Do you prefer the easy platitudes? You said you didn't. How dare you speak about God like He's some frivolous clown? Do you think you're the only o...
God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature, and the enjoyment of him is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than...
[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV) What does Scripture mean when it tells us to fix our eyes on what w...
Countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don’t have in order to underwrite a once in a lifetime opportunity. God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means tur...
God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ’s death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment ex...
Happiness-seeking is built into every person, of every age and circumstance. I believe we inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle fo...
To address good and evil without gazing upon God is fruitless. Good flows from the life connected to God. Evil flows from the life alienated from God. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone...
He opened the first letter, No Dear Mr. Woods. It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too man...
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how...
Most of us find it very difficult to want Heaven at all—except in so far as Heaven means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our w...
In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.
The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before....
No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.
What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.
If God were to end history and reign forever in a distant Heaven, Earth would be remembered as a graveyard of sin and failure. Instead, Earth will be redeemed and resurrected. In the end it will be a...
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