The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

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.

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

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.