Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

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

When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.