The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.