Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

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

The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.