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

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

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

It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.

We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.

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