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

Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

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.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.