God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

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

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts