Quotes

"God is not greater for our being, nor would He be less if we did not exist."

"The most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like."

"The infinite, incomprehensible God is known only insofar as he reveals himself."

"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch."

"Let us not take it into our heads either to seek out God anywhere else than in his Sacred Word, or to think anything about him that is not prompted by his Word, or to speak anything that is not taken from that Word."

"The Bible is not a collection of religious opinions. It is not the opinions of godly men about God. It is the Word of God Himself."

"Holy Scripture is the Word of God, not because it became so by the faith of the church or by the internal witness of the Holy Spirit in the heart of believers, but because it is borne along by the Holy Spirit and has God as its author."

"Be killing sin or it will be killing you."

"A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant."

"Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon."

"The same act which by its nature is right and good, by the mode in which it is performed, can be wrong and bad."

"Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous."

"Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed."

"The gospel is not a call to make yourself better so that God will accept you. It is a declaration that God accepts you in Christ, and that acceptance will make you better."

"Justification by faith alone is the article by which the church stands or falls."

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"The fiercer the battle, the sweeter the rest."

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him."

"Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel."

"Show me a man who doesn't give a hoot about the church of God, and I'll show you someone who doesn't really give a hoot about the glory of God."

"Preaching is not the exposition of a book; it is the proclamation of a Person."

"The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."

"There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still."