“Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.”

“We must not defend our message (that Christ's Word is self-attesting and possessing ultimate authority from the Lord) with a method that works counter to it- by claiming an ultimate epistemological standard outside of Christ's Word of truth.”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True self-denial is self-discovery. To live for ourselves is insanity and suicide; to live for God and for man is wisdom and life indeed. We do not begin to find ourselves until we have become willing to lose ourselves in the service of Christ and of our fellows.”