“Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background!”

There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do.

First of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far.

Have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds.

Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it.

How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law.

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

And every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him.

Let’s keep our chins up and our knees down – we’re on the victory side.

It is faith which turns distress into singing.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

Like it or not the American people support the term ‘background check.’

My mother’s background was Scottish.

Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.