If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.