The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

I did not go through the Book. The Book went through me.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.