There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.