Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.

To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.