If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.