Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.

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

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

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

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

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.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.