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

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.