Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

Refuse to be average.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.