The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.