Q

“The same sun that hardens the clay melts the ice.”

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise …

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies …

“Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of Hell; it’s a place for those who love God.”

“Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face.”

“Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.”

“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s …

“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“Affliction is the best book in my library.”