If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.