Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

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

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

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .