We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.