Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

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

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

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

Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.