We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.