When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

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.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.