We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.