A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

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