Here is the humble confidence of faith - that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost.

To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.

Thinking is not just entertainment on the stage of life where nothing is real. It is really useful in knowing the God who is really there. It is useful in knowing what God has revealed about himself and about this world and how we should live in it.