God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.