Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.