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.
The Holy Spirit’s main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.
Read two old books for every new one.