It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

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

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.