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

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

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

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

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.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.