God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.