We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.