To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.