Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious