Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.