The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.

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

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.