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.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

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

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

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