Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.
The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
It's a sin to bore people.
When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
God is never pleased with ignorant worship, with worship that is not grounded in the knowledge of God.
Repentance is not just a turning to something, it's a turning from something.
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
If I thought even for one moment that a single molecule were running loose in the universe outside the control and domain of almighty God, I wouldn't sleep tonight.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
When I read the Bible, the Bible criticizes me, I don't criticize the Bible.
Because of Christ, our suffering is not useless. It is part of the total plan of God, who has chosen to redeem the world through the pathway of suffering.
