Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.

I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.

Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.

Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.