When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.