The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

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

In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the politically correct answer on a wide range of subjects, whether it's homosexual marriage, or a certain view of government, or a certain view of eschatology or whatever. At the end of the day we want also to encourage the kind of reverent handling of Scripture that wants to be corrected by Scripture, that is more eager to be mastered by Scripture then to master it.

Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.