Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

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