Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.