The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

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.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.