Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

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

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

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

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