For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.