God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

There are no second acts in American lives.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

When we live out a gospel-driven Christian worldview, the gospel is not just something we grasp at conversion; it is something that influences how we see and respond to the world in all areas of our lives. When Christians participate in an unhelpful way in this age of outrage, this transformation has not happened; instead, they have allowed their worldview to become infected.

No longer representative of the dominant culture, Christians need to rethink the way we understand cultural engagement, mission, and evangelism in a newly post-Christian society.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.

It's gude to be merry and wise,It's gude to be honest and true;It's gude to be off with the old love,Before you are on with the new.

When the horse is dead, get off.

Grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.