For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.