There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

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

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.