Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.