If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.