The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize.
Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
God’s love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.
The Christian’s instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God’s favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God’s grace.
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.