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

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.