The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.