We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I don't think I'm successful.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

God cursed those who are the sons of Israel, through David and Jesus, the son of Mary. Those people, God made monkeys and pigs.