Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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.
The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
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.
We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
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
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