We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

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