Don't ever ask God for justice-you might get it.

The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering.

When the Bible speaks of hope, it is not referring to a desire for a future outcome that is uncertain, but rather a desire for a future outcome that is absolutely sure.

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called

Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.

In order to be able to count earthly sorrows and afflictions as matters of joy, we have to cultivate the ability to think in terms of the future.

Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.

Faith is central to the motivation of the human heart to live in a way that honors God.

Love God? Sometimes I hate Him." This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.

Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God.

Just laws reflect what is right.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness.

To reduce the demands of God’s law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one’s own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.

Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.

Sanctification is a process. It is a gradual process. Run for your life from those who promise you instant sanctification.

Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.

Two vitally important truths about the Christian life: we are pilgrims, and we make progress.

If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.