The thing that reveals character is involuntary response, not planned response. Your character isn’t manifest by what you prepare to do. It’s manifest by what you’re not prepared for and how you react to that, that involuntary reaction. That shows your character. We can all plan for those spiritual experiences, to some extent. It’s those things that catch us off guard and reveal the real weakness of our hearts that tell us who we really are.- John MacArthur, The Restoration of a Sinning Saint. (http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/2391_The-Restoration-of-a-Sinning-Saint)

he state of things after the judgment is changeless and without end. The misery of the lost, and the blessedness of the saved, are both alike forever. Let no person deceive us on this point. It is clearly revealed in Scripture. The eternity of God, and heaven, and hell, all stand on the same foundation. As surely as God is eternal, so surely is heaven an endless day without night, and hell an endless night without day.~ J.C. Ryle,Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 344. {Matthew 25:31-46}

"The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind." Job 12:10 Every time you draw your breath--you suck in God's mercy!- Thomas Watson

The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can

take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy

disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and

what we had thought to be prayer.- Robert L. Short (1932-2009), The Parables of Peanuts [1968], New York: HarperCollins, 2002, p. 305

There are only two constants in the world: JESUS and CHANGE. -Mark Driscoll