32 quotes
“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.”
"A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief."
on Philosophy
"The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ."
on Faith
"Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us."
"We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts"
"We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy."
"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."
"What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become."
on Identity
"God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves."
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love."
on Love
"The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence."
"When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection."
on Time
"When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality."
"As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol."
on Ethics
"What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love."
"God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God"
"Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God."
"A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so."
"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."
on Writing
"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now."