Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

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

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

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.