For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.