Occupation: Christian Theologian Birth: July 22, 1926
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both..
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord..
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs ….
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology..
My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that y….
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep..
To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth..
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains..
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons….
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision….
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan..
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife..
We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God….
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit..
To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bo….
I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, i….
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, whe….
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the H….
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, ….
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think ab….
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible..