The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.