We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.