We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

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

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

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.