God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.