Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.