The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus – good, strong, historical, cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
A Christian’s freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.
We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.