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.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

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