It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

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.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.