Don’t domesticate God’s grace. It is so much better than we realize.

David Platt, Jim Shaddix, and Matt Mason, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary: Exalting Jesus in Psalms 51-100, 378.

As a Christian, when you think of things that light you up the most about the Christian faith, what comes to mind — the things you’re currently doing or the things Jesus has done? Friend, the Christian gospel isn’t fundamentally an exhortation. It is a report of what God has done to rescue sinners.

David Platt, Jim Shaddix, and Matt Mason, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary: Exalting Jesus in Psalms 51-100, 377.

The Christian life is fueled by remembrance.

David Platt, Jim Shaddix, and Matt Mason, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary: Exalting Jesus in Psalms 51-100, 375.

God’s Word always addresses people. It’s always personal, and it always speaks to real need. And there’s always help.

David Platt, Jim Shaddix, and Matt Mason, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary: Exalting Jesus in Psalms 51-100, 375.

Q. What doth the preface to the Lord’s prayer teach us in general? — A. To begin our prayers with exalted and adoring views of God, Nehemiah 9:5-6 [Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.]

John Brown of Haddington, Questions and Answers on the Shorter Catechism, 343.

“The first act of the love of God the Father wherein there is anything ad extra, or without the divine essence, is the person of Christ considered as invested with our nature.”

John Owen [Works, 9:614] quoted in Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 73.

Owen’s claim [quoted above] . . . does not chiefly concern chronology but priority and purity, telos, and goodness.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 78.

Sin disorders everything, from our heads to our hearts, from the land to political systems, from our souls to the social structures we inhabit. A realist analysis of Christian life will include, in its proper place, an examination of this disorder. Everything is not terrible, but there is no part of God’s good creation that hasn’t been affected by sin.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 72.

Life is God’s great gift, to be preserved for His uses, not thrown away.

John G. Paton, The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 108.

What two great works of God does the Sabbath day call to our minds? The works of creation and redemption, which, as the catechism informs us, together “contain a short abridgment of religion.” These two works of God, creation and redemption, form the subject matter of the whole Bible. The Bible is the inspired record of God’s works of creation and redemption. The Sabbath day calls these two works of God to our minds and because God instituted the Sabbath when he finished his work of creation, and our Savior Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week, which is the Christian Sabbath.

J. G. Vos, The Westminster Larger Catechism: A Commentary, 337.

How does keeping the Sabbath help us to perform other religious duties better? A spiritual observance of the Sabbath day helps to keep us in touch with God. When we are really in communion with God, all other religious duties can be performed more earnestly and willingly. But if we neglect the Sabbath, our communion with God will be weakened, and we will be likely also to neglect other duties.

J. G. Vos, The Westminster Larger Catechism: A Commentary, 337.