God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man’s image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...
The stars may fall, but God’s promises will stand and be fulfilled.
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
There are no small sins against a great God.
This one word ‘grace’ contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God’s dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.
The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity – hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory – because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.