“There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.”

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Satan is an astute theologian.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.