Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

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

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.