A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.