The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.