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

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

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