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

What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.