Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.