The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

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.

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