The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.