The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

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

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.