The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Only the suffering God can help.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.