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!

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.

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.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.