Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

God's faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.

The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

You are my butterfly, and I am your flower.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease.

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.