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...

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and...

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything.

Behind Calvary’s cross is the throne of heaven.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

If we could see things from a sufficient height above we should all realize that we are in fact proper objects of pity.

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend “who is still liable to surprise us.

It’s hard to know, isn’t it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,’ Grandma continued. ‘I happen...

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God’s will that he began to admit that God’s purposes might be different from...

We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of...

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

Supporting God’s Scriptural ability to give or restrain man’s desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel’s people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him...

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: “slave for Jesus”.