It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.