For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

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