The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

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.

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.