If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.