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 great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

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

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

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

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.