Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

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