When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.

To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

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

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.