For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

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.