Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

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

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.