I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

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

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.