The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the devil at work

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.