We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

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.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.