You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.
The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.
This book (the Bible) is not hard to understand. It's just hard to swallow.
We're not just dogmatic about this-we're bulldog-matic! Sola Scriptura is non-negotiable!
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?