The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

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

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.