The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.