Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.