Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.