Christian is both an optimist and a pessimist: a pessimist about the present, an optimist about the future, and those two together make him a realist.

“As we go through the Bible, when we come across a promise of God that is a ‘pearl’ of his wisdom you will find at the heart of it a piece of grit, a pain, an irritation, a suffering.”
― Come with me through Isaiah
― Come with me through Isaiah
“holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.”
― Come with me through Isaiah
― Come with me through Isaiah
“If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.”
― A Commentary on the Gospel of John
― A Commentary on the Gospel of John

“Conscience compared with the Bible is like a flashlight compared with the sun in the heavens.”
― The Overcoming Life
― The Overcoming Life
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