I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.