A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.