God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.