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

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

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.

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