Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.