Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.