Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

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

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.