It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.