There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

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

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.