God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for...

Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia;...

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

Man is most free when he is most guided.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism...

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that...

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Guidance, like all God’s acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may...

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a “secret good” is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the “solution”...

The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than...

shopping list” to God in order to have your needs met?Or are you running to meet your Lover, to commune with Him, hungering to find your joy in Him, and to be fulfilled in His...

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship...

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the...

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas)...

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put...

As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country...

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I’d rather be a good one. Wouldn’t you?

(God’s) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He...

The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

God called me there.” If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Freewill does not impune the sovereignty of God, it in fact affirms it.

That’s the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don’t really succeed in passing on our faith.

If God be denied, then His sovereignty and infallibility accrue to other agencies.

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal...

There is a certain mysticism in the Christian’s affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.

God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want...

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his...

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don’t really like the big Kingdom if it...

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, ‘Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today”. All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being...