We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.
We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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