The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.