Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.