When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.