You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian.