No one was there. Forbidden fruits create many jams. God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. God grades on the cross, not the curve. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. We don't change the message, the message changes us. You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him. The church service is not a convention to which a family should merely send a delegate. Don't put a question mark where God put a period.