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

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

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.