It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.