No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.