Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

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

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

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

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.