What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

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