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.

For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

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

Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.