“It is going through our trials actively trusting in God, actively holding on to Him in the storm, actively calling upon Him, actively seeking and relying upon His gifts of strength and wisdom to get us through”

“He Himself would become their one true and eternal home”

“Nothing is impossible for God.”

“the exile was not His wrath, but His mercy; not His damnation, but their salvation.”

“that they are in exile in Babylon because they forgot the Lord their God”

“God is in control, such that in the end God’s will shall be done.”