God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. And God granted it. We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction.
MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.