Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.