Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.