One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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