Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.