If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.