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

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

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

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

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