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.
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.