Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

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