But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian.

The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

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

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.