Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.