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

Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.