The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

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

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.