If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

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

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.