I hope to be remembered as a "voice" (like John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness) encouraging people to think, rather than as a personality whose felt status and charisma stopped them thinking.

Self-hatred and God-hatred will feed each other in hell forever.

If you ask, "Why is this happening?" no light may come, but if you ask, "How am I to glorify God now?" there will always be an answer.

Christianity rests on the certainty of Jesus’ resurrection as a space-time occurrence in history.

I am so thankful for the penal substitutionary death of Christ. No hope without it.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean.

The Lord’s Day reminds us that God is the owner and Lord of all things, and we should set aside a special time to worship Him and seek His will for our lives.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life.

Pleasure is designed to raise our sense of God's goodness, deepen our gratitude to him, and strengthen our hope of richer pleasures to come.

If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity find out how much he makes of having God as his Father.

Readiness to die is the first step in learning to live.

One way of judging the quality of theologies is to see what sort of devotion they produce.

The end of walking Godward is that fellowship with God becomes a real and rich reality, more and more, as one lives the life of repentance.

Psalms teach us how to worship; Proverbs, how to behave; Job, how to suffer, Song of Solomon, how to love; Ecclesiastes; how to live.

Real enjoyment is integral to real godliness.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. The Puritans exemplified maturity; we don’t.

Holiness is essentially a happy business.