Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

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

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.