I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.

There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’