Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.