God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

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

Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

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