We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel.
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God’s work as Judge.
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God’s commandments; no further.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent.
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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.
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.
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.