The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

Read two old books for every new one.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.