If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Read two old books for every new one.