The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.