Occupation: Christian Theologian Birth: July 22, 1926
Read two old books for every new one..
It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true..
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart..
The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superfic….
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly..
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time..
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natu….
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among….
It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became….
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about t….
Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human for….
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make..
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, t….
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him..
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder ….
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity..
God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be….
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking bac….
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it..
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will..
Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get..