The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.