If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.