If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.