The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.

Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.