To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.