The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interes...
Many people visualize a God who sits comfortably on a distant throne, remote, aloof, uninterested, and indifferent to the needs of mortals, until, it may be, they can badger him into taking action on their behalf. Such a view is wholly false. The Bib...
Your call is clear, cold centuries across; You bid me follow you, and take my cross, And daily lose myself, myself deny, And stern against myself shout ‘Crucify’. My stubborn nature rises to rebel Against your call. Proud choruses of hell Unite t...
What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.
Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s message and voice; unless they hear him, they will not believe the truths of his death and resurrecti...
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there,” and “He did it, his love took him there.
So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because we serve a global God.
Anti-intellectualism and fullness of the Holy Spirit are mutually incompatible. Wherever the Holy Spirit has given His freedom, truth is bound to matter.
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
A marriage that isn't built around the Cross will be devoid of grace, mercy, and humility that come when both husband and wife recognize their need for a savior.
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.
