By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

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

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.