There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.