It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.