The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

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.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.