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To the first Adam God said, “Obey Me about the Tree and I will bless you” – and Adam didn’t do it. But to the second Adam He says, “Obey …

“If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.”

“God will render all accounts settled in the end, in the universe, either on the cross or in Hell. No injustice will remain!”

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“The sun will burn your eyes out from 92 million miles, and you expect to casually stroll into the presence of its Creator.”

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“The same sun that hardens the clay melts the ice.”

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise …

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies …