Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

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

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.