The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

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.

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.