There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

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