Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.