A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.