God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a ‘silver lining’ but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam’s descendents.
God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.
A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.
If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid ground for rejoicing.
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man’s make-up.
Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.
The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob’s faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset.
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil’s overthrow of our first parents.
Real prayer is communion with God.