The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.