sovereignty-of-god

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" _ a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History is the scene of the working out God's justice, which we can never escape, but it is also the scene of the revelation of the everlasting mercy.

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.