God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.