Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

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.

God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds