Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.