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

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief.

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

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.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?