Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.