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

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.