Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.