The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
To know God’s love is indeed heaven on earth.
We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it – the fact that He knows me.
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual’s destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God.
The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living.
My advice to a new husband is nothing more than ‘husbands, love your wives.’ And ‘love your wife as Christ has loved the church.’ Never forget that you are Christ’s representative in serving your wife.
God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.