Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?

Sometimes more is hidden behind a truth than a pack of lies.

Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.