God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my heart with his spiritual analysis, and help me to become a minister of the gospel, which is what I wanted to be.

We can never reflect too much on God's grace.

Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.

Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.