There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Character is what you are in the dark.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.