Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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?
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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 saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
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