God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.