God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.