In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.
If you reject God’s commanding word, you will not receive God’s gracious word.
Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God’s glory.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.
The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.