“…that if we preach the gospel in all its fullness, and if we apply it to the whole man, to the mind as well as the heart and the will – if we preach the ‘whole counsel of God’ to the whole individual personality, relying upon the Holy Spirit, we shall find that the gospel today will produce its results in all types and kinds and classes…” (p251)
“The fact is that the world attaches great significance to mind, and to intellect, and to learning and to understanding. And not only that, but to moral effort and to moral striving too. It glories in these things. But the gospel does not. That does not mean that the gospel tells you to commit intellectual suicide, or that an able man cannot be a Christian. But it does mean that the gospel tells all men at the very beginning that it does not matter how able a man may be, that alone will never make him a Christian.” (p262-3)
“We have heard so much about the ‘quest’ for truth, the ‘search’ for reality. Now that is the exact opposite of the gospel. The gospel is not something that invites us to join in a great search or a great quest. It is an announcement. It is a revelation. It is an unfolding, an unveiling of something.” (p295)
“The gospel of Jesus Christ is as insistent upon man’s righteousness in the presence of God as the law ever was in the Old Testament dispensation.” (p300)
“The penalty of the Law was meted out upon Him, and so He has honoured the law completely, positively and negatively, actively and passively. There is nothing further the law can demand; He has satisfied it all.” (p302)
“Faith is the contradiction of everything that is meritorious in man. Faith is the contradiction and the negation of every tendency in man to say that merit is enough.” (p306)
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